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