| Site Name | The Retreat, (Cheshunt) Dairy Plains, Meander River |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Port Sorell [Pallittore North] |
| Colony | VDL |
| Present State/Territory | TAS |
| Police District | Launceston |
| Latitude | -41.622 |
| Longitude | 146.519 |
| Date | Between 1 Dec 1827 and 31 Dec 1827 |
| Attack Time | day |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victims Killed | 19 |
| Victims Killed Notes | Killed: M 19 unspecified, F; Probable: M F; Possible: M F; Wounded: M F |
| Attackers | Colonisers: stockman |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | Killed: M F; Wounded: M F |
| Transport | Foot |
| Motive | Opportunity |
| Weapons Used | Swivel gun |
| Narrative | Travelling through this area in September 1830, government agent G.A. Robinson was informed by Henry Hellyer, the surveyor of the VDL Co of an incident at “The Retreat”, a cattle run on the Meander River leased by Hobart solicitor, Gamiel Butler. His stock-keeper Paddy Heagon “shot nineteen of the western natives with a swivel gun charged with nails”. |
| Sources | Plomley 1966: 197-8, 218. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | * |
