This news article contains a Proclamation made by Governor Macquarie that announces that military parties have been deployed against Aboriginal people and orders that ten Aboriginal people who are considered to be 'in a state of Outlawry' are to be apprehended or killed. A transcript of this Proclamation is available at DOC3074.

Proclamation of Governor Macquarie, The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser No 661 (20 July 1816),1

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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Proclamation of Governor Macquarie, The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser No 661 (20 July 1816),1

Hawkesbury Nepean and surrounds