| Site Name | Quamby Brook, Quamby Bluff (2) This massacre is part of a group of massacres |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Port Sorell [Pallittore North] |
| Present State/Territory | TAS |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | VDL |
| Police District | Launceston |
| Latitude | -41.595 |
| Longitude | 146.71 |
| Date | 27 Jun 1827 |
| Attack Time | Night |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 30 |
| Victims Killed Notes | Killed: M 30, more than 6 unspecified, F; Probable: M F; Possible: M F; Wounded: M F |
| Attackers | Colonisers |
| Attacker Descriptions | Field Police, Stockmen/Drover(s), Soldier(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | Killed: M 1 - stock-keeper employee of William Field; 2 - shepherds, employed by William Widowson and Abraham Walker, F; Wounded: M F |
| Transport | Foot |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Musket(s), Bayonet(s) |
| Narrative | Following the first massacre of 30 Pallittore at Quamby Brook on 26 June 1827, in reprisal for the killing by Pallittorre warriors of stock-keeper William Knight, an assigned servant of William Field at the Western Marshes (Dairy Plains) on 23 June 1827, Corporal William Shiner's party comprising Corporal James Lingren, district constable Williams and stock keepers, Thomas Baker, James Cubit, Henry Smith and Thomas White, attacked a Pallittore at a camp at Quamby Brook on 27 June 1827 and allegedly killed 30 of them. This was the second massacre in the 'Quamby Bluff' massacres. |
| Sources | CTTA July 6, 1827, p4 - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/679329; TAHO CSO 1/316, pp 15-45; Plomley 2008, p 254; Breen 2001, p 27; Ryan, 2008, p 493. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | ** |
Colonial Frontier Massacres
in Australia, 1788-1930
