Petition signed by William Cox, the Reverend Samuel Marsden, George Innes, WI Brown, Robert Lowe, Archibald Bell, George Palmer, William Walker, John Blaxland and William Lawson Snr: Bathurst Settlers to Governor Brisbane, 16 July 1824.

Letter from Bathurst Settlers to Governor Brisbane dated 16 July 1824 in Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1825, SRNSW [4/1799], 73-76

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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Letter from Bathurst Settlers to Governor Brisbane dated 16 July 1824 in Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1825, SRNSW [4/1799], 73-76

Central Western NSW Conflict