Commandant Lawson sets out instructions for Andrew Dunn and soldiers to search for and Aboriginal people.

Instructions to Andrew Dunn, Overseer to Justice Wilde from William Lawson, Commandant, dated 12 October 1823 in Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1825, SRNSW 4/1798, 337

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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Instructions to Andrew Dunn, Overseer to Justice Wilde from William Lawson, Commandant, dated 12 October 1823 in Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1825, SRNSW 4/1798, 337

Central Western NSW Conflict