| Site Name | Bellinger River |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Gumbaynggirr |
| Present State/Territory | NSW |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | NSW |
| Police District | Kempsey |
| Latitude | -30.413 |
| Longitude | 152.914 |
| Date | Between 1 Jun 1841 and 10 Jun 1841 |
| Attack Time | |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 20 |
| Victims Killed Notes | |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Border Police, Crowns Land Commissioner |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Dispersal |
| Weapons Used | Musket(s) |
| Narrative | When Major Oakes, Crown Lands Commissioner for the Clarence McLeay Pastoral District, and a party of mounted field police were returning from the Clarence River to Head Quarters at Kempsey in June 1841, they reported that they were attacked by a large group of Aboriginal people (Bundjalung) and, in self-defence, they killed and wounded 20 of them. A Government Inquiry was proposed (Sydney Herald, 19 July, 1841, p 2), but if it was held, there is no extant report. |
| Sources | Sydney Herald, July 19, 1841, 2. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12870072 (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | * |
Colonial Frontier Massacres
in Australia, 1788-1930
