| Site Name | Oyster Bay, East Coast |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Oyster Bay |
| Colony | VDL |
| Present State/Territory | TAS |
| Police District | Richmond |
| Latitude | -42.366 |
| Longitude | 147.495 |
| Date | Between 1 Nov 1815 and 30 Nov 1815 |
| Attack Time | night |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victims Killed | 17 |
| Victims Killed Notes | Killed: M 17 - 22 unspecified, F; Probable: M F; Possible: M F; Wounded: M F |
| Attackers | Colonisers: soldiers |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | Killed: M F; Wounded: M F |
| Transport | Foot |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Firearms, muskets, blades, bayonets, swords |
| Narrative | On November 8, 1815, Colonial Chaplain Robert Knopwood recorded in his diary that Oyster Bay warriors had killed 930 sheep at Scantlands Plains. In 1830 settler James Hobbs recalled that 300 sheep were killed and that the next day a detachment of the 48th Regiment shot 22 Oyster Bay people in reprisal. In 1852, historian John West said that 17 were killed. |
| Sources | Nicholls 1977: 26; BPP 1831: 50; West 1852: 10. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | *** |
