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Newspaper report of the massacre of Aboriginal people at Appin on 17 April 1816

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[Sydney Gazette, 11 May 1816, p2 (via Trove)]

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Appin massacre

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Aboriginal Armed forces Crime Death and Dying Political crimes and offenses Victims of crime War

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Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser

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Appin massacre

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Broughton, William Cannabayagal Dawe, Charles Durelle Macarthur, Elizabeth Schaw, WGB Wallis, James

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Airds Appin Hawkesbury district Lachlan Vale

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Blue Mountains Grose River

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Appin massacre

As white settlement spread across the Cumberland Plain, dispossession lead to violence and assaults culminating in the events near Appin in 1816.

Aboriginal

Victims of crime

War

Armed forces

Political crimes and offenses

Crime

Death and Dying

Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser

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First newspaper published in Sydney, from 5 March 1803 until 20 October 1842.

Originally printed in a lean-to shed at the back of Government House, the newspaper moved to different premises in Macquarie Place in 1808 and then to a building on lower George Street in December 1810. In 1824 the printery moved again to a larger two storey building further south on George Street on the corner of Charlotte Place.

Appin massacre

Massacre of 14 members of the Dharawal people which occurred in 1816 when Governor Lachlan Macquarie ordered a punitive expedition to round up Aboriginal people thought to be responsible for conflict with settlers to the area.

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Wallis, James

English-born soldier and commander of the 46th Regiment which ran raids against Aboriginal people near Appin and Airds.

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Dawe, Charles

Lieutenant of the 46th Regiment which ran raids against Aboriginal people near Appin and Airds.

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Schaw, WGB

Captain of the 46th Regiment which ran raids against Aboriginal people near Appin and Airds.

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Durelle

Muringong warrior and leader.

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Cannabayagal

Gandangara warrior and leader from the Burragorang valley.

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Hawkesbury district

Area surrounding the Hawkesbury River to Sydney's north and north-west, which was important in early colonial agriculture and the site of the early towns of Richmond and Windsor.

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Appin

Village and rural locality at the southern edge of the Cumberland Plain. Named in 1811 for the birthplace of Governor Macquarie's wife in Argyllshire Scotland.

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Airds

South-western suburb in the Macarthur region. It was named by Governor Lachlan Macquarie in honour of his wife Elizabeth's family estate in Scotland.

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Blue Mountains

Part of the Great Dividing Range west of Sydney, reaching a height of 1100 metres. In 1829 the name for the area used by the local Aboriginal people was recorded as being Colomatta .

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Grose River

River which runs from Mount Victoria to the Hawkesbury, forging a deep valley through the Blue Mountains.

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Macarthur, Elizabeth

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Settler and farmer who arrived in the colony in 1790, founded a family, and took over the farming interests of her husband from 1809, building the basis of a pastoral industry in fine wool. The success of the Macarthurs' Camden Park estate was largely due to her.

Broughton, William

Dedicated and trustworthy public servant who arrived with the First Fleet.

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Lachlan Vale

A 1000-acre farm in Appin near the Nepean River.

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