| Site Name | Mt Augusta, Ross |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Oyster Bay |
| Present State/Territory | TAS |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | VDL |
| Police District | Campbell Town |
| Latitude | -41.979 |
| Longitude | 147.49 |
| Date | 12 Apr 1827 |
| Attack Time | Dawn |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 40 |
| Victims Killed Notes | Killed: M 40 unspecified, F; Probable: M F; Possible: M F; Wounded: M F |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Field Police, Settler(s), Convict(s), Soldier(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | Killed: M 2 F; Wounded: M F |
| Transport | Foot |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Musket(s), Bayonet(s), Blade(s) |
| Narrative | On May 4 1827 on page 3, the Colonial Times reported that three weeks earlier, Thomas Rawling [Rawlins] and Edward Green, servants of settler Walter Davidson on the Elizabeth River, had been killed by a party of Aborigines led by Black Tom (Kickerterpoller) and “Several persons assisted by a small party of soldiers made immediate pursuit." The incident was also reported in the Hobart Town Gazette. While both newspapers reported the finding of the bodies of Green and Rawlins, accounts of fatalities in the reprisal varied from a tally of 'not less than thirty' (Colonial Times, 11 May 1827, p 2) to the claim that 'not a single Native was killed' (Colonial Times, 25 May 1827, p 4). . Further information appeared in 2002, p 13 in a published memoir of settler James George, who recorded the aftermath: “Having seen their fires in a gully near the River Macquarie, some score of armed men, Constables, Soldiers and Civilians, and Prisoners (convicts) or assigned Servants, who fell in with the Natives when they was going to their Breakfast. They fired volley after volley in among the Blackfellows, they reported killing some two score”. |
| Sources | HTG May 5,1827 - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/679817; CTTA May 4, 1827 - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/679292, CTTA May 11, 1827 - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/679295, CTTAMay 25, 1827 - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/679305; BPP 1831, pp 48-49; George, 2002, p 13; Ryan, 2012, p 90. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | ** |
