Massacre at Mayfield, Oyster Bay
In March 1826, following the alleged killing by Oyster Bay warriors of Roberts, a convict servant assigned to settler Thomas Buxton, at 'Mayfield', Oyster Bay, the magistrate at Waterloo Point recorded four or five years later, that at the time of the incident a party went out after them and that one Aborigine was wounded.(TAHO CSO 1/316/7478, p 840). A few years later Buxton's neighbour, Dr Story, interviewed Buxton's daughter about the incident and sent her account to historian James Bonwick (1870, p 117). She said that the party killed several Aborigines at their camp that night.
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CorroborationRating: **
LanguageGroup: Oyster Bay / Little Swanport
Victims: Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People
VictimsDead: 6
CorroborationRating: **
LanguageGroup: Oyster Bay / Little Swanport
Victims: Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People
VictimsDead: 6
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Massacre at Mayfield, Oyster Bay14 Mar 1826 — Mayfield, Oyster Bay — massacreIn March 1826, following the alleged killing by Oyster Bay warriors of Roberts, a convict servant assigned to settler Thomas Buxton, at 'Mayfield', Oyster Bay, the magistrate at Waterloo Point recorded four or five years later, that at the time of the incident a party went out after them and that one Aborigine was wounded.(TAHO CSO 1/316/7478, p 840). A few years later Buxton's neighbour, Dr Story, interviewed Buxton's daughter about the incident and sent her account to historian James Bonwick (1870, p 117). She said that the party killed several Aborigines at their camp that night.