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| 1791 |
- escaped convicts, William and Mary Bryant,
thought to have located Glenrock Lagoon
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| 1797 |
- Lt. John Shortland lands on the southern
shore of the Hunter River
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| 1799 |
- the Hunter sails to Bengal with
the first coal exports from Newcastle
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| 1800 |
- August: William Reid locates Lake Macquarie,
sailing into the channel after mistaking it for the Hunter
River
- November: the Norfolk wrecked
on Stockton Beach
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| 1801 |
- Paterson, Grant and Barrallier explorer
the lower Hunter River on the Lady Nelson, seeing "the
fires of the natives and many individuals"
- June: first settlement formed at the
mouth of the Hunter River under M. Mason; abandoned February
1802
- November: Superintendent Mason reports
hostile encounters with Aborigines on the Hunter River,
and the theft of two blankets by one man, thought to be
under the influence of alcohol
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| 1804 |
- March: second settlement at `King's
Town' (Newcastle) formed under Charles Menzies with 34
Irish convicts implicated in the Castle Hill uprising;
thereafter a "place for the reception of desperate
characters" and "choice rogues"
- May: six Aboriginal men from Newcastle
taken to Sydney to meet Governor King
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| 1812 |
- January: Governor Lachlan Macquarie
inspects the Newcastle settlement
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| 1818 |
- Benjamin Singleton marks a route a
land route from Sydney to Newcastle
- Governor Lachlan Macquarie makes the
second of three tours of Newcastle; meets "Burigan,
King of the Newcastle native tribe" and 40 men, women
and children, who entertain with a short "Carauberee";
"I ordered them to be treated with some grog and
an allowance of maize".
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| 1819 |
- September 18: convict Henry Langton
receives 75 lashes at Newcastle for "Cutting a black
native with a knife"
- November: John Howe marks a route from
Windsor to the Hunter River near Jerrys Plains
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| 1820 |
- January: Commissioner J.T. Bigge inspects
the Newcastle penal settlement
- October: death of King Burrigan of
the Newcastle tribe, from injuries sustained in the recapture
of the convicts James Kirby and James Thompson
- October 28: three convicts, Robert Davis,
Thomas Franklin and William Page flogged for `Inhumanely
ill treating and cutting a black native and intimidating
him against bringing in bushrangers'
- December: trial and execution in Sydney
of James Kirby for the murder of King Burrigan
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