| Site Name | Quamby Bluff (4) 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 | -41.551 |
| Longitude | 146.481 |
| Date | 13 Jul 1827 |
| Attack Time | Dawn |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 9 |
| Victims Killed Notes | Killed: M 9 unspecified, F; Probable: M F; Possible: M F; Wounded: M F |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Foot Soldier(s), Stockkeeper(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | Killed: M F; Wounded: M F |
| Transport | Foot |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Firearm(s), Musket(s), Pistol(s), Bayonet(s), Blade(s) |
| Narrative | Nine Pallittore Aboriginal people were killed in in reprisal for the attempted killing of Thomas Baker, overseer to landowner David Gibson at Dairy Plains. The dawn attack on the Pallittore camp near Quamby Bluff was probably led by Corporals William Shiners and James Lingan, assisted by District Constable Thomas Williams and stock-keepers James Cubit, Henry Smith and Thomas White. This was the 4th reprisal massacre in the cluster known as the Quamby Bluff killings. They were carried out in reprisal for the killing of an overseer and the wounding of another; and the killing of two shepherds. It is estimated that more than 75 Pallittore were killed in the four massacres. |
| Sources | TAHO CSO 1/316, 15-37; Plomley, 2008, p 254; Ryan, 2008, p 491. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | ** |
Colonial Frontier Massacres
in Australia, 1788-1930
