| Site Name | Elizabeth River (Mt Augustus) Eastern Midland Plain |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Oyster Bay |
| Colony | VDL |
| Present State/Territory | TAS |
| Police District | Campbell Town |
| Latitude | -41.95 |
| Longitude | 147.588 |
| Date | 12 Apr 1827 |
| Attack Time | dawn |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victims Killed | 40 |
| Victims Killed Notes | Killed: M 40 unspecified, F; Probable: M F; Possible: M F; Wounded: M F |
| Attackers | Colonisers: soldiers, field police,settlers, convicts |
| Attackers Killed | 2 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | Killed: M 2 F; Wounded: M F |
| Transport | Foot |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Firearms, muskets, shotguns, blades, bayonets |
| Narrative | On May 4, the Colonial Times reported that three weeks earlier, Thomas Rawling and Edward Green, servants of settler Walter Davidson on the Elizabeth River, had been killed by a party of Aborigines led by Black Tom: “Several persons assisted by a small party of soldiers made immediate pursuit. In 2000, a published memoir of settler James George, recorded the incident in the following way: “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 - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/679292, 11 - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/679295, 25 - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/679305, 1827; BPP 1831: 48-9; George 2002: 13; Ryan 2012: 90. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | ** |
