Site Name Slaughterhouse Creek, Gwydir River
Aboriginal Place Name
Language Group Gamilaraay
Colony NSW
Present State/Territory NSW
Police District Singleton
Latitude -29.735
Longitude 150.317
Date 1 May 1838
Attack Time dawn
Victims Aboriginal People
Victims Killed 300
Victims Killed Notes Killed: M F; Probable: M 300 (?), F; Possible: M F; Wounded: M F
Attackers Colonisers: Stockman/Drover
Attackers Killed 0
Attackers Killed Notes Killed: M F; Wounded: M F
Transport Horse
Motive Opportunity
Weapons Used swords, cutlasses,muskets, pistols
Narrative Fifteen heavily armed stockmen positioned themselves on the slopes of the ravine for a dawn attack on an Aboriginal camp below on the creek bed. According to Roger Milliss, about 200 Gamilaraay were slaughtered. The massacre is embedded in the memories of the Gamilaraay in the region.
Sources Milliss 1992: 200-3 (Sources PDF)
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