| Site Name | Mayfield, Oyster Bay |
| Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Place Name | |
| Language Group, Nation or People | Oyster Bay / Little Swanport |
| Present State/Territory | TAS |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | VDL |
| Police District | Waterloo Point |
| Latitude | -42.243 |
| Longitude | 147.979 |
| Date | 14 Mar 1826 |
| Attack Time | Night |
| Victims | Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 6 |
| Victims Killed Notes | |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Field Police, Stockkeeper(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Foot |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Musket(s), Pistol(s), Bayonet(s), Blade(s) |
| Narrative | In March 1826, following the alleged killing by Oyster Bay warriors of Roberts, a convict servant assigned to settler Thomas Buxton, at 'Mayfield', Oyster Bay, the magistrate at Waterloo Point recorded four or five years later, that at the time of the incident a party went out after them and that one Aborigine was wounded.(TAHO CSO 1/316/7478, p 840). A few years later Buxton's neighbour, Dr Story, interviewed Buxton's daughter about the incident and sent her account to historian James Bonwick (1870, p 117). She said that the party killed several Aborigines at their camp that night. |
| Sources | TAHO CSO 1/316, 1831, p 840; Bonwick, 1870, p 117. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | ** |
