| Site Name | Pagan's Flat, Tabulum |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Bundjalung |
| Present State/Territory | NSW |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | NSW |
| Police District | Kempsey |
| Latitude | -28.947 |
| Longitude | 152.551 |
| Date | Between 1 Jan 1841 and 31 Dec 1841 |
| Attack Time | Dawn |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 20 |
| Victims Killed Notes | |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Border Police, Stockmen/Drover(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Musket(s) |
| Narrative | According to Eve Kean, the author of the history of Kyogle, in 1841, P.C.Pagan, leaseholder of East Tabulum station was speared and killed by a Bundjalung warrior for having fired his gun into the Bundjalung camp for their having stolen a blanket. 'In reprisal, a posse of armed stockmen and border police, massacred the entire camp.' (Kean 1957, p.12). The camps was located on the Clarence River, at what is now Pagan's Flat. |
| Sources | Kean (1957), p.12. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | * |
Colonial Frontier Massacres
in Australia, 1788-1930
