Killing of Aboriginal people in reprisal for William Brown’s death

Date: 1 Jul 1845
Place: Near Hynam
A party of colonists gathered to revenge the death of William Brown. One of the group was Mr Sanders who was accompanied by an Aboriginal man from Adelaide who acted as a tracker. The avengers came across approximately thirty people whom they ‘punished’. An unknown number of Aboriginal people were shot.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
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  • Killing of Aboriginal people in reprisal for William Brown’s death
    1 Jul 1845 — Near Hynam
    A party of colonists gathered to revenge the death of William Brown. One of the group was Mr Sanders who was accompanied by an Aboriginal man from Adelaide who acted as a tracker. The avengers came across approximately thirty people whom they ‘punished’. An unknown number of Aboriginal people were shot.
    (See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
    Source: Robert Foster, Skye Krichauff and Amanda Nettelbeck, The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 2024, http://ua.edu.au/south-australian-frontier