| Site Name | Pittwater |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Oyster Bay |
| Colony | VDL |
| Present State/Territory | TAS |
| Police District | Pittwater |
| Latitude | -42.814 |
| Longitude | 147.672 |
| Date | Between 1 Jun 1829 and 30 Jun 1829 |
| Attack Time | dawn |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victims Killed | 10 |
| Victims Killed Notes | Killed: M 10 unspecified, F; Probable: M F; Possible: M F; Wounded: M F |
| Attackers | Colonisers: soldiers, field police |
| Attackers Killed | 2 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | Killed: M 2 F; Wounded: M 3 F |
| Transport | Foot |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Firearms |
| Narrative | Following a series of raids by 15-20 Aborigines on huts for food in which they killed two stock-keepers and wounded at least three others, a party pursued them, and returned with the missing booty. The magistrate reported that the “particular object of this non-commissioned officer [was] to capture ...without loss of life, but as they fled on the approach of the Party, I am [sorry ] to state that it is supposed eight or ten of the natives were severely wounded.” |
| Sources | TAHO CSO 1/316: 281,832; CSO 1/321 1829: Jun 16; HTC Jun 13, 1829 - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/642053, June 20, 1829 - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/642061. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | *** |
