| Site Name | Gordon Brook Station, Clarence River |
| Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Place Name | |
| Language Group, Nation or People | Bundjalung |
| Present State/Territory | NSW |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | NSW |
| Police District | Clarence |
| Latitude | -29.44 |
| Longitude | 152.634 |
| Date | Between 1 Sep 1842 and 30 Sep 1842 |
| Attack Time | |
| Victims | Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 20 |
| Victims Killed Notes | |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Border Police, Settler(s), Overseer(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Firearm(s) |
| Narrative | In early November1842, a group of Bundjulung people stole a flock of sheep at an outstation of Gordon Brook Station on the Clarence River, owned by Messrs Sandeman and Company. In reprisal the overseer led some stockmen to the Bundjulung camp and killed 20 of them. The massacre was reported in the Sydney Morning Herald, 12 November 1842, p.2. On 14 December 1842, Gordon Sandeman published a letter in the Sydney Morning Herald, p.3, denying the massacre and his overseer's involvement. This appears to be the code of silence being imposed in the aftermath of a frontier massacre. |
| Sources | Sydney Morning Herald, 23 November 1842, p.2 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12411438; 14 December 1842, p.3 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12417951. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | * |
