This webpage includes an extract from Governor Macquarie's Governor's Diary & Memorandum Book Commencing on and from Wednesday the 10th Day of April 1816.A full transcript of the diary entry dated 10 April 1816 is available at DOC6207.

'The Appin Massacre', Australian Museum (Webpage, 21 February 2025)

After a period of relative peace, raids and violence on and around the Hawkesbury Nepean River escalated again from 1814. Initially, Governor Macquarie ordered settlers to treat Aboriginal people ‘in every respect as Europeans’. However by 1816, with attacks increasing, Governor Macquarie commenced ‘the largest military campaign the colony had...

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'The Appin Massacre', Australian Museum (Webpage, 21 February 2025)

Hawkesbury Nepean and surrounds