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NameColonists Retreat From Aboriginal Raids On The South Road
DescriptionAfter raids by Aboriginal people and attacks upholding Aboriginal law, on colonists, their livestock and homesteads, many colonists retreated. These points show the locations retreated to, not from. In some cases, the retreat involved several points. Eg: Faithfull's men retreated from Benalla to the Ovens River. He later retreated from the cattle run on King River to the sheep run on Oxley Plains at the Ovens River, from which they were routed, one convict fleeing as far north as Yass.
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Mr Faithfull and survivors of the Faithfull massacre retreat.

Placename
Lieutenant-Colonel White's station
Type
Other

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Latitude
-36.3593
Longitude
146.3254
Start Date
1838-04-15
End Date
1838-04-15

Description

"Mr Faithfull has fallen back on my station with the escaped people, and one wounded man, who is so dreadfully lacerated, that I believe he cannot survive." - p319 H.J. White to Col. Sec., 15 April 1838 'George Faithfull and his men recover at Lieutenant-Colonel White's station' in Cannon, Michael (ed.) Historical Records of Victoria Vol 2A The Aborigines of Port Phillip 1835-1839, Melbourne: Victorian Government Printing Office 1982

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DateNote
Date of H.J. White's letter to Col. Sec.
Location Source
Wells, W.H. "Plan of the road between Gundagai and Port Phillip" June 28, 1841

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Latitude
-36.3593
Longitude
146.3254
Start Date
1838-04-15
End Date
1838-05-22

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"...we arrived at Colonel White's station on the left bank of the River Ovens on the 22nd ultimo, but finding that that gentlemen and other settlers had abandoned their stations I left that country, and having previously been informed that Mr Faithfull's party had gone on to Port Phillip, we would not hope to obtain any information there and accordingly proceeded direct to the Broken River or Winding Swamp (where outrages had been committed), where we remained two days in search of the tribe who frequent that place, but not having succeeded in falling in with it we returned to the Murray River." p332 George Stewart to Col. Sec., 20 June 1838 'Police Magistrate Stewart's final report on the massacre' in Cannon, Michael (ed.) Historical Records of Victoria Vol 2A The Aborigines of Port Phillip 1835-1839, Melbourne: Victorian Government Printing Office 1982

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DateNote
Date from date mentioned in letter, so some time between the overlanders retreat to the station and that date.
Location Source
Wells, W.H. "Plan of the road between Gundagai and Port Phillip" June 28, 1842

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Mackay abandons station retreats to Nurengong/Hume River/Murray River

Placename
Nurengong/Hume River/Murray River
Type
Other

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Latitude
-36.1008
Longitude
146.909
Start Date
1838-04-19
End Date
1838-04-19

Description

"I arrived at the Ovens in March 1838, on the evening of the day on which Mr. Faithfull's party were attacked by the blacks at Broken River...In a few days Mr. G. Faithfull selected the lands he now holds Oxley Plains and I occupied the lands immediately opposite Myrrhee, now the station of J. W. Chisholm. A panic seized the servants and they deserted their employers. Bowman, Faithfull, and White, abandoned their cattle on the runs, and I was left alone with three assigned servants, my freemen having absconded. In a few days these assigned men told me that they would stay no longer, but offered to assist me back to the settled districts with the stock. I was thus compelled to leave the Ovens. I took my stock back to the Hume River (Nurengong). On my return to the Ovens in about six months' time, I found that Chisholm had -taken possession of Myrrhee, and I settled at Warrouley, which I still hold."pp187-189 George Edward Mackay to His Excellency C. J. La Trobe, Esq. in Thomas Francis Bride (ed) Letters from Victorian Pioneers Melbourne: Librarian of the Public Library Victoria, 1898https://archive.org/stream/lettersfromvicto00publiala/lettersfromvicto00publiala_djvu.txt

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DateNote
A few days' after the Faithful massacre selected land, then a few days later staff deserted so he followed, so est. 1 week after massacre.
Location Source
Hume River' aka Nurengong, now known as Murray River, the point is taken to be where the South Road crosses the Murray, ie: Albury/Wodonga. On p330 letter from Mackay indicates he is at Lewis's station 'left bank of the Hume River' but I can't figure out where Lewis' station was.

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Faithfull flees again

Placename
Ovens River
Type
Other

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Latitude
-36.35503878
Longitude
146.3264842
Start Date
1838-05-03
End Date
1838-05-03

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"Faithful and Bowman have left their cattle running about wild and Colonel White buried his property in a hole dug in the ground. They fled and left me alone, after advising me to leave everything and fly too. I brought everything away,..." It is unclear where Bowman fled to. Faithfull sent a servant south. Faithful had retreated directly from the massacre, to Oven's river, from where they 'ran away', according to a convict who himself swam the river and fled to Yass. p330 Dr George E. Mackay, at Lewis's station, left bank of the Hume River, to W. Broughton of Burrowa, River Murray, 15 May 1838.

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Bowman abandons station

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Type
Other

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Latitude
-37.04591412
Longitude
145.0968182
Start Date
1838-05-03
End Date
1838-05-03

Description

"Faithful and Bowman have left their cattle running about wild and Colonel White buried his property in a hole dug in the ground. They fled and left me alone, after advising me to leave everything and fly too. I brought everything away,..." It is unclear where Bowman fled to. Faithfull sent a servant south. Faithful had retreated directly from the massacre, to Oven's river, from where they 'ran away', according to a convict who himself swam the river and fled to Yass. p330 Dr George E. Mackay, at Lewis's station, left bank of the Hume River, to W. Broughton of Burrowa, River Murray, 15 May 1838.

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It's unclear where Bowman fled to. Location is simply the south road, east of Bowman's station. Possibly he fled to Oven's river with Faithfull.

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Convict overlanders flee

Placename
Yass
Type
Other

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Latitude
-34.84216416
Longitude
148.9113935
Start Date
1838-05-03
End Date
1838-05-03

Description

"We retreated to the Ovens river, and stopped there about three weeks, when John Todd, one of Mr Faithfull's men, came to us from the cattle station, seven miles from where we were, and gave information that the blacks were expected to attack the cattle station that night. Mr Faithfull and Mr Snodgrass with twelve men besides went from where we were at the Ovens, to the cattle station. The next day the shepherds came running in from their sheep saying the blacks were after them. Mr Faithfull was with us and called for his horse; we all ran away; I swam the Ovens River in company with four other men, and I proceeded to Yass, and gave myself up to the watch house." p331 Statement by Patrick Drain, sworn at Yass, 1 June 1838 Convicts fled when attack threatened in Cannon, Michael (ed.) Historical Records of Victoria Vol 2A The Aborigines of Port Phillip 1835-1839, Melbourne: Victorian Government Printing Office 1982

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Est. from '3 weeks' after the massacre.

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Mr Faithfull moves run to Oven's River

Placename
Mr Faithfull's station
Type
Other

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Latitude
-36.3508
Longitude
146.3249
Start Date
1838-04-15
End Date
1838-05-22

Description

"...I left Lieutenant Waddy with the Mounted Police at the Murray, and went to Mr Faithfull's station (having now ascertained that he had formed one on the Ovens), to endeavor to get some information relative to the movements of those who had attacked his party. But having been informed by that gentleman that although both he and his men had been repeatedly at the Broken River and surrounding country, collecting his scattered cattle, none of the blacks had been seen for many weeks..." p332 George Stewart to Col. Sec., 20 June 1838 'Police Magistrate Stewart's final report on the massacre' in Cannon, Michael (ed.) Historical Records of Victoria Vol 2A The Aborigines of Port Phillip 1835-1839, Melbourne: Victorian Government Printing Office 1982

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DateNote
Date from date mentioned in letter.
Location Source
Coordinates estimated from Oven's River at Wangaratta.

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Mounted Police search fails

Placename
Sutton Grange Station
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-36.989
Longitude
144.36
Start Date
1838-06-03
End Date
1838-06-03

Description

"I have sent a party of the Mounted Police to show themselves thereabouts for a short time in order to inspire confidence and to alarm the blacks." p336 William Lonsdale to Col. Sec., 3 June 1838 Lonsdale sends Mounted Police 'to alarm the blacks' in Cannon, Michael (ed.) Historical Records of Victoria Vol 2A The Aborigines of Port Phillip 1835-1839, Melbourne: Victorian Government Printing Office 1982

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DateNote
It's not indicated when they returned in information available to me.

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Native Police search fails

Placename
Goulburn River
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-37.026
Longitude
145.107
Start Date
1838-11-12
End Date
1838-12-13

Description

"...I received a communication from Mr John Rutledge that a party of blacks had been upon his station on the Goulburn River on the 12th ult., that they had killed a number of sheep and an assigned servant of Doctor Forster's name George Mould, per Mangles. I immediately desired Mr De Villiers with the black police to proceed there, and if the people who were present at the killing of the man could be identified, to endeavour to apprehend them. They returned on the 13th inst., but without having accomplished anything, beyond tracking the tribe they went in pursuit of a considerable way along the Goulburn." p341, William Lonsdale to Col. Sec., 14 December 1838 Native Police unable to find those responsible in Cannon, Michael (ed.) Historical Records of Victoria Vol 2A The Aborigines of Port Phillip 1835-1839, Melbourne: Victorian Government Printing Office 1982

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