This Webpage contains a transcript of extracts from the journal of Henry Antill recounting the journey over the Blue Mountains led by Governor Macquarie in 1815. The journal entries cover the period of 25 April to 19 May 1815. 

Henry Antill, Journal of an excursion over the Blue or Western Mountains of New South Wales, to visit a tract of new discovered Country, in company with His Excellency Governor & Mrs. Macquarie, and a Party of Gentlemen' in Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie Archive, (Journal, 4 May 1815)

The establishment of the colonial settlement of Bathurst on Wiradjuri country in 1815 and the expansion of the colony over the Bathurst Plains led to war between the Wiradjuri people and the colonisers in the 1820s. Bathurst and the neighbouring settlements were administered by Commandants, who tried various and unsuccessful...

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Henry Antill, Journal of an excursion over the Blue or Western Mountains of New South Wales, to visit a tract of new discovered Country, in company with His Excellency Governor & Mrs. Macquarie, and a Party of Gentlemen' in Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie Archive, (Journal, 4 May 1815)

Central Western NSW Conflict