Topics: Events: West
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1809 - view
raids
1811 - view
abducts and rapes
1814 - view
Punitive Expedition
1816 - view
capture 12 Aboriginal boys and six girls, between four and six years of age, for the Native Institution at Parramatta
1816 - view
promises to grant ‘small parcels of land to such of them [Aborigines] as are inclined to become regular settlers’
1816 - view
He promises Nurragingy and Colebee a joint grant of 30 acres at South Creek (now Blacktown)
1821 - view
form a nucleus of stable Europeanised Aboriginal settlers
1821 - view
300 Aborigines attend the annual Native Conference at Parramatta
1821 - view
Two Aboriginal couples marry in 1821 (Polly to Michael Yarringguy and Betty to Bobby Nurragingy)
1822 - view
first officially sanctioned marriage
1824 - view
In one year in the 1840s, over one hundred infants perish
1824 - view
course of tuition and religious instruction
1824 - view
Lawry was accused of prostituting the girls at the orphan school
1824 - view
pay-back ceremony
1824 - view
fighting tournament
1826 - view
remunerated for their day's labour
1826 - view
men work upon the settlers’ farms at odd jobs
1828 - view
Windsor and Richmond Gazette reported
1829 - view
tree climbing demonstrations
1829 - view
tourist trade