Site Name Minnamurra River, South Coast
Aboriginal Place Name
Language Group Dharawal
Colony NSW
Present State/Territory NSW
Police District Sydney
Latitude -34.633
Longitude 150.839
Date 1 Oct 1818
Attack Time day
Victims Aboriginal People
Victims Killed 6
Victims Killed Notes Killed: M 6 or more, F; Probable: M F; Possible: M F; Wounded: M F
Attackers Colonisers: Settler,overseer
Attackers Killed 0
Attackers Killed Notes Killed: M F; Wounded: M F
Transport Foot
Motive Opportunity
Weapons Used Firearms, muskets, blades, cutlasses, bayonets
Narrative Attacked an Aboriginal campsite at the river and fired muskets at them. Carried out by Lt Weston, owner of a property at Dapto, Cornelius O’Brien, overseer of William Browne’s property at Yallah and seven labourers and convict workers.
Sources Depositions to the Sydney Bench, October 24, 1818; Report by Joseph Wild, district constable at Illawarra; Elder 2003: 25-6 (Sources PDF)
Corroboration Rating ***