| Site Name | Lagoon Lower Marshes near Jordan River |
| Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Place Name | |
| Language Group, Nation or People | Big River |
| Present State/Territory | TAS |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | VDL |
| Police District | Oatlands |
| Latitude | -42.339 |
| Longitude | 147.188 |
| Date | Between 1 Mar 1828 and 31 Mar 1828 |
| Attack Time | Day |
| Victims | Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 17 |
| Victims Killed Notes | |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Stockmen/Drover(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Foot |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Musket(s), Pistol(s), Bayonet(s), Blade(s) |
| Narrative | On 4 March 1828, Aboriginal warriors killed stockman William Walker on the Den Hill road near Bothwell (TAHO CSO 1/323 p 113; HTC March 15, 1828, p 3; HTC 22 March 1828, pp 3-4). Three years later, when government agent G.A. Robinson passed through the area, he was told by 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' (Plomley, 1966, p 503; 2008, p 537). |
| Sources | TAHO CSO 1/323, 113; HTC, March 15, 1828, p 3 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/641575; HTC, March 22, 1828, pp 3-4 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/641580; Plomley, 1966, p 503; 2008, p 537. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | *** |
