Original Documents on Aborigines and Law
1797-1840
Published by the Centre for Comparative Law History and Governance of Macquarie University, and State Records NSW
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Document 30
Mr. Brooks Esq to R Scott on the black depredations: 27 February 1829
[106]
Dalziel [?] Hunters River
27 Feby 1829
Sir,
I am obliged by the prompt assistance sent me in the bearer of this and am happy to inform you that I have seen nothing of the Blacks today. I went out in the morning with two of my men, and three [?] constables, and traced the thieves by the husks of corn, to the high ground on the margin of the river in the reserve, and saw a good cart load of husks, and a well trodden path up and down the large creek which divides my land, but I did not feel justified in going to a greater distance after them. If you think proper at a convenient opportunity to take any of those into custody whose names I mentioned, I shall have my men forthcoming to identify them.
I am sir
YOUR MOST OBEDIENT SERVANT
William Biggold [?]
Robert Scott Esq [etc]
[107]
27 February 1829
William Brookes Esq
to
Mr Scott Esq
on the blacks depredations
no 30