Site Name Dairy Plains Meander River (2)
Aboriginal Place Name
Language Group Port Sorell [Pallittore North]
Colony VDL
Present State/Territory TAS
Police District Launceston
Latitude -41.551
Longitude 146.481
Date 13 Jun 1827
Attack Time dawn
Victims Aboriginal People
Victims Killed 9
Victims Killed Notes Killed: M 9 unspecified, F; Probable: M F; Possible: M F; Wounded: M F
Attackers Colonisers: Stock keepers
Attackers Killed 0
Attackers Killed Notes Killed: M F; Wounded: M F
Transport Foot
Motive Reprisal
Weapons Used Firearms, muskets, pistols, blades, bayonets
Narrative Nine Aborigines killed in a dawn raid by stockkeepers and shepherds in reprisal for the attempted killing of Thomas Baker, overseer to landowner David Gibson.
Sources TAHO CSO 1/316, 15-37; Plomley 1966: 219; Ryan 2008: 491. (Sources PDF)
Corroboration Rating **