Site Name Bullock Hunting Ground, East Tamar River
Aboriginal Place Name
Language Group North Midlands
Colony VDL
Present State/Territory TAS
Police District George Town
Latitude -41.306
Longitude 146.99
Date 19 Mar 1828
Attack Time night
Victims Aboriginal People
Victims Killed 14
Victims Killed Notes Killed: M 4 F 9 +1 child; Probable: M F; Possible: M F; Wounded: M F
Attackers Colonisers: Settler, stock keepers
Attackers Killed 0
Attackers Killed Notes Killed: M F; Wounded: M F
Transport Foot
Motive Reprisal
Weapons Used Firearms, muskets, blades, swords
Narrative In reprisal for killing a stock-keeper in this area, “a party of volunteers came up with the murderers at Bullock Hunting Ground, where 4 men, 9 women and a child of the Black people were killed.”
Sources TAHO CSO 1/316:729 (Sources PDF)
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