A Guide to New South Wales State Archives relating to Aboriginal People

Part 2: State Archives from other Government Agencies relating to Aboriginal People (cont.)

• SUPREME COURT
• 1 Miscellaneous correspondence relating to Aborigines, 1797, 1804-06, 1814-16, 1824-40
• 2 Memoranda selected from `Twenty Four Years of Missionary Engagements in the South Sea Islands and Australia', by Lancelot Edward Threlkeld, Missionary to the Aborigines, New South Wales. Presented to Judge Burton by the author, September 1838.
• 3 Criminal Jurisdiction. Returns of Aboriginal natives tried before the Supreme Court, 1832-38, 1846-48
• 4 Judges' Notebooks. Dowling, C.J.: Proceedings of the Supreme Court of N.S.W., 8-15 November 1838, 1 February 1839, 2 September 1839.
• 5 Judges' Notebooks. Burton, J. Criminal Sessions, 12 November-10 December 1838.
• SURVEYOR GENERAL
• 1 Map, `Darling River No. 4', 28 February 1851
• 2 Letters received, 1856 (Letter No. 56/12399)
• 3 Requisitions for blankets, 1859, 1866
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Part 2: State Archives from other Government Agencies relating to Aboriginal People (cont.)

SUPREME COURT

1 Miscellaneous correspondence relating to Aborigines, 1797, 1804-06, 1814-16, 1824-40

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This is correspondence, mainly of an official nature, relating to customs and habits of Aboriginal people, accounts of investigations instituted into atrocities committed by and against Aboriginal people, the establishment and maintenance of native institutions and church missions (at Wellington Valley, Port Phillip and in New Zealand), and memoranda, notes and draft process concerning causes involving Aboriginal people (as defendants) in the Supreme Court. The bundle contains two main `groups' of correspondence:

1. Correspondence between Robert Scott (Justice of the Peace at Patrick's Plains from 1836) and various officials and private persons concerning relations between Aboriginal people and European settlers on the Hunter River.

2. Correspondence and notes of Mr. Justice Burton concerning (a) a draft bill `for amelioration and protection of the Aboriginal natives of this colony' (mainly letters received from private persons concerning tribal customs and mores and recollections of relations with Aboriginal people in the past); (b) causes involving Aboriginal people to be heard before the Supreme Court; (c) notes relating to the admissibility of Aboriginal people's evidence.

2 Memoranda selected from `Twenty Four Years of Missionary Engagements in the South Sea Islands and Australia', by Lancelot Edward Threlkeld, Missionary to the Aborigines, New South Wales. Presented to Judge Burton by the author, September 1838.

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3 Criminal Jurisdiction. Returns of Aboriginal natives tried before the Supreme Court, 1832-38, 1846-48

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The returns record the name, date and crime for Aboriginal natives tried before the Supreme Court, 1832-36 and 1846-48.

4 Judges' Notebooks. Dowling, C.J.: Proceedings of the Supreme Court of N.S.W., 8-15 November 1838, 1 February 1839, 2 September 1839.

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This volume (number 156) contains Chief Justice Dowling's notes on the first trial of those involved in the Myall Creek Massacre.

5 Judges' Notebooks. Burton, J. Criminal Sessions, 12 November-10 December 1838.

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This volume (number 39) contains Judge Burton's notes on the second trial of those involved in the Myall Creek Massacre.

SURVEYOR GENERAL

1 Map, `Darling River No. 4', 28 February 1851

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This map shows the location of a `native fishery' on the Darling River. It was transmitted to the Surveyor General with a letter dated 28 February 1851. It bears the Surveyor General's number W.16.1322.

2 Letters received, 1856 (Letter No. 56/12399)

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These papers consist of three letters sent by the Commissioner of Crown Lands at Lower Darling to the Surveyor General concerning outrages committed by Aborigines at the Manara Hills. The letters are registered as numbers 56/10543 (with enclosure) and 56/12399 and were filed together at the latter number. These letters were handed over to the Archives Office by the Mitchell Library, which had received them from the Surveying Museum, Department of Mapping and Surveying, Brisbane.

3 Requisitions for blankets, 1859, 1866

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This bundle comprises two requisitions for blankets for Aboriginal people in the districts of Macleay River (1859) and Warialda (1866). Individuals are not named.

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