| Site Name | Boonall Station, MacIntyre River region |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Bigambul or Gawambaraay |
| Present State/Territory | QLD |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | NSW |
| Police District | Warialda |
| Latitude | -28.555 |
| Longitude | 150.246 |
| Date | Between 12 Sep 1847 and 30 Sep 1847 |
| Attack Time | Night |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 40 |
| Victims Killed Notes | Killed: M 40, F; Probable: M F; Possible: M F; Wounded: M F |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Settler(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | Killed: M F; Wounded: M F |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Firearm(s), Double-barrelled Purdey(s) |
| Narrative | Following the Aboriginal killing of squatter James Mark’s son, Johnny, on 10 September 1847 in retaliation for his shooting and killing an Aboriginal messenger ‘boy’ at ‘Goodar’ station on the Weir River a week earlier, James Mark gathered a posse of settlers and stockmen and rode south to ‘Boonall’ station on the MacIntyre river where they 'found forty Aboriginal people encamped in the bend of the river' (Milliss, 1980, p 39). It appears that they shot them all and then burnt the campsite. There is no indication that the Aboriginal group was involved in the killing of Mark’s son (Milliss, 1980, p 39). This was the first of several revenge killings and massacres led by Mark over more than six months in reprisal for the killing of his son. |
| Sources | Bligh, CCL, Gwydir to CCCL, 10 Jan 1849; SRNSW, 2/7634; Watts, 1901, p 20; Webb, 1922, pp 7-12; Milliss, 1980, p 39; Copland, 1990, pp 52-54. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | *** |
