This article describes an attack by a group of Aboriginal people on a farm at Bringelly.

'Sydney. Sitting Magistrate - W. Broughton, Esq', The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (9 May 1816), 2

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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'Sydney. Sitting Magistrate - W. Broughton, Esq', The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (9 May 1816), 2

Hawkesbury Nepean and surrounds