OFFICIAL LIST OF ATROCITIES COMMITTED BY THE NATIVES.
1830.--January 1. William Smith, in the employ of ---- Triffet,
jun., killed near the river Ouse. Piper's hut, at Bark Hut Plains,
broken open and plundered of a musket, blankets, sugar, &c. Captain
Clark's hut, at Bark Hut Plains, robbed, and his house entered by
the natives.
February 1st. Mr. Brodie's hut, near the Clyde, was attacked while
he was in it; he was speared in several parts of his body, but not
mortally; they stole blankets, tea, sugar, &c. 9th. Mr. Mazetti's
hut robbed; Lawrence Dering, servant to Mr. Bell, killed. 11th. Mr.
Bell's house and servants attacked on Great Jordan Lagoon; the
natives kept at bay from the house, but one man received a spear
through the thigh. Mr. Hopley murdered about a mile from Mr.
Betts'; James M'Carthy desperately wounded. 12th. Mr. Howell's
dwelling hut burned. Mrs. Howell and her children narrowly escaping
the flames. Twenty of Mr. Espie's sheep killed and maimed. Mr.
Thomson's hut attacked by forty or fifty. Mr. Paterson's shepherd
pursued by the natives. 17th. John Bluchaby and Philip Norboy
killed at Dysart parish, Oatlands, at noon day. Lawrence Murray,
servant to Mr. Bell, killed. A child killed at Bagdad, near the
road side. 20th. Mr. M'Rae's house, near Bothwell, plundered of
flour, and within a mile of the military station, at Bothwell. Mr.
Sherwin's house burned to the ground, with the greater part of his
property; his servants' hut and fences also consumed. The Weazle
Plains Hut burned down; a black man wounded, in the act of setting
fire to it. 22nd. Captain Clark's barn and corn stacks consumed,
containing 1,200 bushels of grain.
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