Site NameClyde and Ouse Rivers
Aboriginal Place Name
Language GroupBig River
Present State/TerritoryTAS
Colony/State/Territory at the timeVDL
Police DistrictClyde
Latitude-42.316
Longitude146.886
Date10 Mar 1829
Attack TimeDawn
VictimsAboriginal People
Victim DescriptionsAboriginal
Victims Killed6
Victims Killed NotesKilled: M 6 unspecified, F; Probable: M F; Possible: M F; Wounded: M F
AttackersColonists
Attacker DescriptionsField Police, Settler(s), Stockkeeper(s)
Attackers Killed0
Attackers Killed NotesKilled: M F; Wounded: M F
TransportFoot
MotiveOpportunity
Weapons UsedMusket(s), Bayonet(s), Blade(s)
NarrativeIn a report on 10 April 1829 to Thomas Anstey , the police magistrate at Oatlands, Jorgen Jorgenson the leader of a roving party between the Clyde and Ouse rivers, said that the leader of another, "fired at a party of natives. He had no recourse left but to fire at them and by the traces of blood some of them were wounded if not mortally." Six Aboriginal people were killed. (TAHO CSO 1/316, p 189).
SourcesTAHO CSO 1/316, p 189. (Sources PDF)
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