Thomas Peel of Swan RiverHistory of the Swan River Settlement, W.A. and its founder Thomas Peel 1768-1865; Settlement founded 1829; p.77- 78; Contact & reactions between the first Swan River settlers and the Aborigines; Chp.IX; Settlers difficulties with the Murray River Aborigines - murder and plunder - police force formed - Pinjarra area; Effort to civilize Aborigines; Institution for natives founded at foot of Mount Elna 1837 under F.F. Armstrong; Attitude of settlers improved. |
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Page 33
Who is to know which is that moment: certainly not the participants, only the later
viewers of the time. Thirty years later, on another January day when no snow fell,
when the quicksilver stood at 1 10 degrees, Thomas Peel may have reflected ...
Who is to know which is that moment: certainly not the participants, only the later
viewers of the time. Thirty years later, on another January day when no snow fell,
when the quicksilver stood at 1 10 degrees, Thomas Peel may have reflected ...
Page 37
He must have been a man of parts, for when next he is heard of, only three
months later, he had married the daughter of a well-off merchant of Sydney, one
William Roberts of Hunter Street, dealer, tanner and grazier. Mr Roberts named
him an ...
He must have been a man of parts, for when next he is heard of, only three
months later, he had married the daughter of a well-off merchant of Sydney, one
William Roberts of Hunter Street, dealer, tanner and grazier. Mr Roberts named
him an ...
Page 81
This fresh meat quelled the restlessness of the settlers at Clarence a little,
although not much later they had forgotten this alleviation and were to aver that
they had had only three pigs, two sheep and four fresh oxen to eat in seven
months.21 ...
This fresh meat quelled the restlessness of the settlers at Clarence a little,
although not much later they had forgotten this alleviation and were to aver that
they had had only three pigs, two sheep and four fresh oxen to eat in seven
months.21 ...
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| Title | Thomas Peel of Swan River |
| Author | Alexandra Hasluck |
| Publisher | Oxford U. P., 1965 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 22 Jul 2010 |
| Length | 273 pages |
| Subjects | Australia Frontier and pioneer life Pioneers Swan River (W.A.) Western Australia |
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