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Wednesday 10. April 1816: Macquarie’s Journal
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Wednesday 10. April 1816: Macquarie’s Journal.‘The Aborigines, or Native Blacks of this Country, having for the last three years manifested a Strong and Sanguinary Hostile Spirit, in repeated instances of murders, outrages, and Depredations of all descriptions against the Settlers and other White Inhabitants residing in the Interior and more remote parts of the Colony, notwithstanding their having been frequently called upon and admonished to discontinue their hostile Incursions and treated on all these occasions with the greatest kindness and forbearance by Government; — and having nevertheless recently Committed several cruel and most barbarous murders on the Settlers and their Families and Servants, killed their Cattle, and Robbed them of their Grain and other Property to a considerable amount, it becomes absolutely necessary to put a stop to these outrages and disturbances, and to adopt the strongest and most coercive measures to prevent a recurrence of them, so as to protect the European Inhabitants in their Persons & Properties against these frequent and sudden hostile and sanguinary attacks from the Natives. — I therefore, tho, very unwillingly felt myself compelled, from a paramount Sense of Public Duty, to come to the painful resolution of chastising these hostile Tribes, and to inflict terrible and exemplary Punishments upon them without further loss of time; as, they might construe any further forbearance or lenity, on the part of this Government, into fear and cowardice. In pursuance of this resolution, and on the grounds of the most imperious necessity, arising from their own hostile, daring, outrageous, and sanguinary Proceedings, I have this Day ordered three Separate Military Detachments to march into the Interior and remote parts of the Colony, for the purpose of Punishing the Hostile Natives, by clearing the Country of them entirely, and driving them across the mountains; as well as if possible to apprehend the Natives who have committed the late murders and outrages, with the view of their being made dreadful and severe examples of, if taken alive. — I have directed as many Natives as possible to be made Prisoners, with the view of keeping them as Hostages until the real guilty ones have surrendered themselves, or have been given up by their Tribes to summary Justice. — In the event of the Natives making the smallest show of resistance – or refusing to surrender when called upon so to do – the officers Commanding the Military Parties have been authorized to fire on them to compel them to surrender; hanging up on Trees the Bodies of such Natives as may be killed on such occasions, in order to strike the greater terror into the Survivors. — These Military Detachments consist of the two Flank Companies of the 46th. Regt., Commanded severally by Capt. Schaw, Capt. Wallis, and Lieut. Dawe of the same Corps, and marched this forenoon from Sydney for Windsor, Liverpool, and the Cow Pastures respectively; furnished with proper Guides of Europeans and friendly Natives, Ammunition, Provisions &c. &c., the Officers Commanding these Detachments respectively being directed by their Instructions to commence their Operations at and from the several Points herein mentioned of Windsor, Liverpool, and the Cow Pastures; exploring and scouring the whole of the Country on the East side of the Blue Mountains from the Kurry-Jong Brush on the North side of the River Hawkesbury, to the Five Islands, alias Illawarra, on the South and Eastward of the Cow Pastures and River Nepean. — I have sent an Orderly Dragoon (mounted) – and a light Cart with each of the two large Detachments Commanded by Capts. Schaw and Wallis the Detachment commanded by Lieut. Dawe being intended to remain Stationary in the Cow Pastures for some time. — L. M.’157 10th of April, 1816: The troops march out.‘A detachment of the 46th Regiment marched on Wednesday for the protection of the out settlements against the violent and flagitious conduct of the hostile natives.’158 On the 10th of April, Captain Wallis, who was already in the field, became aware that Gogy was with a group of nearby Aboriginal people and was keen to capture him. John Warby, his chief guide told him that the group was friendly and shortly afterwards Warby told Wallis that he would no longer take charge of the Aboriginal guides. When the nature of the military expedition became apparent to them, Bundle and his kinsman, Bootbarrie,159 absconded on the night of the 11th of April. On the 15th, Wallis marched pointlessly to Dr. Redfern’s farm in response to a message from Redfern’s overseer, who summoned the troops apparently out of personal fear, or to scare Aboriginal people away from his master’s farm. On the 17th, on the advice of settlers, Captain Wallis, alerted by the cry of a child, found a Aboriginal encampment and killed fourteen Aboriginal people in a gully near Mr. Broughton’s farm in the Airds District. As the party contained women and children and were hiding there is a strong possibility that the camp was not hostile. He took five women and children prisoner.160 Captain Wallis was later handsomely rewarded with the command of Newcastle. Lieutenant Dawes, on the advice of one of Mrs. Macarthur’s men, surprised a Aboriginal camp, killed at least one person and captured a fourteen year old boy. Lieutenant Dawes revealed a racist attitude in his report with the observation: “On Saturday the 13th I went in company with Jackson and Tindal to the top of Mount Hunter with a view of discovering by means of their fires if any natives infested the neighbourhood.”161 Captain Schaw’s report clearly illustrated the difficulties conventional forces had in operating against irregular forces. He arrived at Windsor on the 11th of April and met with the magistrates. On the 12th, with constables, settlers and additional guides he marched to Bell’s farm at Richmond Hill. On the 13th, he marched up to the Grose River, followed it upstream before swinging north through the Kurry Jong Brush to Singleton’s Hill.162 His Aboriginal guides pointed out tracks and led him to a camp that had been slept in on the 12th, but no contact was made. On the 14th, despite splitting his party, no tracks were seen. The reunited party slept that night at Howe’s farm.163 He returned to Windsor on the 15th and commenced his march south to Bringelly; but a summons from Doctor Arndell, informing him that farms around Cattai were being attacked saw him march north to Arndell’s Cattai farm. In the early hours of the 16th he failed to surprise an encampment and spent the rest of the morning pursuing fifteen warriors. After resting his men, who must have been exhausted, he came to Douglas’s farm and was told that a neighbouring farm had been plundered. Once more he attempted a surprise attack on a camp, sending out a detachment in the early morning of the 17th. However, after marching nine miles, the guide, a white stock man, declined to lead the party to the spot. On the 18th Captain Schaw led his men south. Despite showing considerable skill and fortitude Captain Schaw failed to make contact with an elusive enemy. His account raises important issues. In scouring the Kurry Jong Brush he found one set of tracks, one camp and no Aboriginal people. On the other side of the river he pursued some fifteen warriors, attempted attacks on two camps, one of which was at least nine miles from Cattai. His account suggests that there was significantly less hostile activity and fewer Aboriginal people on the Hawkesbury than in previous years. On the 22nd April Lieutenant Parker marched to Mr. Woodhouse’s farm and took into custody Duall/Dewall and Quick, both of whom had been taken prisoner on Mr. Kennedy’s farm. Duall/Dewall was sent to Parramatta and Quick volunteered to guide the troops to the Aboriginal people that he belonged to. Tyson and Nobles went with Quick, but the group of Aboriginal people was too large to attack. Quick was sent to Liverpool with Noble. On the 3rd of May, Lieutenant Parker took nine Aboriginal people; mostly women and children and probably the family of Duall who had surrendered on Kennedy’s farm; into custody. He then marched north to Liverpool and Sydney with his prisoners.164 Also on the 22nd April, Serjeant Murphy was ordered to take a party of soldiers across the Blue Mountains to protect the government depot at Glenroy on the junction of the Rivers Cox and Lett, which had been attacked and plundered by Aboriginal people from the County of Cumberland. Murrah had been identified by Hannibal Macarthur as “the same man who speared Mr McArthur's overseer, and who threw spears at the soldiers at Cox's River some time since”. When combined with the attack on the government cart around the 12th of March and the killing of the soldier at Springwood it is logical to conclude that the rising of 1816 was far more widespread than records indicate and that it probably involved not just Aboriginal people from the Cumberland Plain but also those west of the Blue Mountains. 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