| Site Name | Breelong, near Gilgandra |
| Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Place Name | |
| Language Group, Nation or People | |
| Present State/Territory | NSW |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | NSW |
| Police District | Central West |
| Latitude | -31.737 |
| Longitude | 148.749 |
| Date | 20 Jul 1900 |
| Attack Time | Evening |
| Victims | Colonists |
| Victim Descriptions | |
| Victims Killed | 8 |
| Victims Killed Notes | |
| Attackers | Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People |
| Attacker Descriptions | Warrior(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Foot |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Waddies/Nulla-nulla(s), Tomahawk(s) |
| Narrative | At 10pm on 20 July 1900, Jimmy Governor and Jacky Underwood, slaughtered seven members of the Mawbey family and the governess, at the Mawbey homestead in Breelong in reprisal for racist insults they made to Jimmy's non-Aboriginal wife and for non-payment of splitting wood for fencing (Nepean Times, July 28, 1900, p 3; SMH, July 23, 1900, p7). |
| Sources | Nepean Times, July 28, 1900, p 3 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article101351156; Dungog Chronicle: Durham & Gloucester Advertiser, July 31, 1900 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page15866320; Muswellbrook Chronicle, October 6, 1900, p 4 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107010252; SMH, July 23, 1900, p 7 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14325848; July 28, p 12 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14327294 Nov 24, 1900, p11 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14377033; Singleton Argus, Jan 19, 1901, p 4 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article78908493;Evening News, July 27, 1900, p 3 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112586798; August 7, 1900, p 5 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112584490; August 22, 1900, p 4 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112584861; August 31, 1900, p 8 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112590518; September 1, 1900, p 6 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112587452. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | *** |
