Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 148
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[Page 148]
some remarks sufficiently amusing - it says "For the more perfect understanding of the parts of the following report which relate to Winterton parish, Four Square Gallows, and Poole's Marsh, I shall observe that within a very narrow circumference all the farmers and settlers are named "Jones" although of different families and not related to each others - but Vizt the married Jones residing in Four Square Gallows, whose christian name is Robert. The unmarried Robert Jones whose hut stands upon the banks of the Jordan, and not five hundred yards from the farm house of the married Rt. Jones, although on opposite Banks of the River. Michael and John Jones residing at the Sideling Hill, and also on the Banks of the Jordan. And Mr John Jones nearer Jericho on the Jordan."
The depredations murders committed by the Blacks in a short period amounted to 121 - that is such as could be