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Barwon River Campaign

Placename: Barwon Creeks
Layer: Aboriginal Raids on Colonists On The South Road
Type: Other

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Latitude: -38.1384
Longitude: 144.2342
Start Date: 1838-05-22
End Date: 1838-05-22

Description

"7. On or about the 22nd May all the stations on the Barwon creeks, extending to a distance of more than 30 miles from Geelong (on the western side Port Phillip,) were attacked, for the second time, by a party of about 60 blacks. Several huts were plundered; one flock of sheep was driven to a distance of seven or eight miles, three were killed and 25 wounded. From another station 16 lambs were carried off, and from a third, six sheep and six lambs; and other mischief is reported to have been done to a considerable extent." pp356-357 Gipps, Sir George 'Aboriginal attacks summarised: Enclosure in dispatch from Sir George Gipps to Lord Glenelg, 21 July 1838' 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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