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Raid on Yaldwyn's station

Placename: Barfold Station
Layer: Aboriginal Raids on Colonists On The South Road
Type: Other

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Latitude: -37.11270834
Longitude: 144.5121982
Start Date: 1838-06-09
End Date: 1838-06-09

Description

"John Coppock, superintendant of the property of Mr W.H. Yaldwyn, being sworn, states: On the 9th of the present month, one of the men in the employ of Mr Yaldwyn named Lutter came to me from an out-station. I was employed to see him and asked him what brought him in. He said there had been the devil to pay, that the blacks had taken his flock of sheep and another of Mr Bowman's, a neighbouring settler, and that the blacks had pursued him and made leave the run. "Upon receiving this information I immediately assembled three men and took them around to search for the sheep. We went to the run where they had been taken away, where I found several carcases of sheep, some skinned, some cut up and a great many totally destroyed." [following this, when they came upon the camp, there was an exchange of fire and spears, with 'seven or eight blacks dead'] p336-337 Melbourne Court Register, 29 June 1838 'Several Aborigines killed on W.H. Yaldwyn'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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