1837 - 1838
1837
- October - Aborigines gather at Wellington Valley for secret initiation ceremonies
1838
- February - Acting-Governor of NSW, Lt-Col Kenneth Snodgrass, approves the creation of a civil police establishment at Wellington Valley. Orders are given for a number of the settlement buildings to be appropriated for the new establishment
- May - the new Wellington Police arrest two Aboriginal men, `Pretty Boy’ and `Franky’, who are brought before the Bench at Wellington and committed to stand trial in Sydney
- July 3 - mission house nearly burns down
- July 21 - William Porter, the mission agriculturalist, arrives at Wellington Valley
- August 29 - the Watsons move into the former Prisoners' Barracks; “May the little separation rather tend to unite our hearts more closely together” [Gunther Journal]
- November 1 - Gunther departs for Sydney, having been subpoenaed to appear before the Supreme Court in the murder trial of the Aborigine `Franky’