Minnamurra River massacre, South Coast
1818 CE.
Shown on the map at -34.633°, 150.839°.
On 1 October 1818, approximately six Wodiwodi people were killed in a clash with nine settlers from the Colony of New South Wales along the Minnamurra River in the Illawarra, New South Wales. The settlers claimed to have been attempting to recover two muskets which had been lent to some of the Aboriginal people which escalated into an armed clash. Local Dapto property owner, William Frederick Weston, his site overseer, Cornelius O'Brien, John Stewart, stock keeper, John McArthy, and William Richards, along with unknown convicts and labourers approached an Aboriginal campsite in the early hours of the morning, armed with muskets, swords and knives attached to long sticks. Stewart, Richards and McArthy, as well as the constable for Illawarra, Joseph Wild would testify to magistrates in Sydney in a subsequent inquiry.
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