| Site Name | Quamby Brook |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Port Sorell [Pallittore North] |
| Colony | VDL |
| Present State/Territory | TAS |
| Police District | Launceston |
| Latitude | -41.595 |
| Longitude | 146.71 |
| Date | 26 Jun 1827 |
| Attack Time | night |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| 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: soldiers, field police, stockmen |
| Attackers Killed | 3 |
| 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 | Firearms, muskets, bayonets |
| Narrative | Reprisal for the killing by Aborigines of a stock-keeper, an employee of William Field. In retaliation (a second reprisal) corporal John Shiner's party set off in pursuit and they were alleged to have killed several Aborigines. On July 3, 1827 in another counter reprisal, Aborigines killed two shepherds, employed by William Widowson and Abraham Walker, intitiating yet another reprisal by Shiner's party. |
| Sources | CTTA July 6, 1827 - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/679329; TAHO CSO 1/316: 15-45; Plomley 1966: 219; Breen 2001: 27; Ryan, 2008: 493. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | ** |
