| Site Name | Lagoon Lower Marshes near Jordan River |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Big River |
| Colony | VDL |
| Present State/Territory | TAS |
| Police District | Bothwell |
| Latitude | -42.339 |
| Longitude | 147.188 |
| Date | Between 1 Mar 1827 and 31 Mar 1827 |
| Attack Time | day |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victims Killed | 17 |
| Victims Killed Notes | Killed: M 17 unspecified, F; Probable: M F; Possible: M F; Wounded: M F |
| Attackers | Colonisers: stockmen |
| Attackers Killed | 1 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | Killed: M 1 Stockman, William Walker F; Wounded: M F |
| Transport | Foot |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Firearms, muskets, pistols, blades, bayonets |
| Narrative | Following the killing of stockman William Walker on the Den Hill road near Bothwell on 4 March 1828, government agent G.A. Robinson was told by nearby settler Robert Barr, that in reprisal, a group of stockmen ‘killed seventeen Natives; that they had first killed seven and they then followed them to a lagoon and killed ten more. The Natives could not get away.’ |
| Sources | TAHO CSO 1/323, 113; HTC, 15 March - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/641575, 22 March - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/641580, 1828; Plomley 2008: 537. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | *** |
