Site Name | Mill Creek |
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Place Name | |
Language Group, Nation or People | Worimi |
Present State/Territory | NSW |
Colony/State/Territory at the time | NSW |
Police District | Raymond Terrace |
Latitude | -32.243 |
Longitude | 151.972 |
Date | Between 1 Jan 1828 and 31 Dec 1828 |
Attack Time | Day |
Victims | Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People |
Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
Victims Killed | 11 |
Victims Killed Notes | |
Attackers | Colonists |
Attacker Descriptions | Military |
Attackers Killed | 0 |
Attackers Killed Notes | |
Transport | Foot |
Motive | Reprisal |
Weapons Used | Musket(s), Horse(s) |
Narrative | Capt. Thomas Cook, Magistrate 'of the whole country north of Newcastle', in the mid 1820s, recorded that 'a band of blacks stole a child, the daughter of Mrs Easterbook, whose husband was a clerk of the AA Company at Stroud. They disappeared in a northerly direction but were pursued by a party of armed soldiers and assigned servants and overtaken some twenty miles away. Eleven blacks were killed and the child recovered.' (Bennett 1964, p.12-13). The rescue/reprisal party appears to have been on foot. |
Sources | Bennett 1964, p 12-13. (Sources PDF) |
Corroboration Rating | * |