Raymond, James (Compiler). The New South Wales Calendar and General Post Office Directory, 1832
Please see excerpt for description of Great North Road, Branch of the Great North Road leading through Wollombi, through Maitland to the Williams River, Port Stephens, the Manning and Port Macquarie, Road from Wollarobba to Upper William and Chichester Rivers, Road from Newcastle through Maitland to Great North Road at Patrick's Plains and Road from Brisbane Water to Maitland. pp.124 - 154 Click here for PDF version (840KB) Mentions Aboriginal place names.
1833
Lieutenant Breton in the Hunter Region. (58MB PDF file) Contains 94 pages of excerpts relating to the flora and fauna of Newcastle, Maitland and the Hunter Region with many references to Aboriginal people and descriptions of the landscape. Chapter 2 pp. 86 - 137 and Chapter 4 pp. 186 - 299. Breton, William Henry, d.1887.Excursions in New South Wales, Western Australia and Van Diemen's Land, during the years 1830, 1831, 1832, and 1833 by Lieut. Breton. London : Richard Bentley, 1833. Cultural Coll/RB AUROUSS 994.02/174
1834
Lang, John Dunmore, 1799-1878. An historical and statistical account of New South Wales, both as a penal settlement and as a British colony / by John Dunmore Lang. London : Cochrane and M. Crone, 1834.Vol. 2 Chapter 2 pp. 85-126. (3.84 MB PDF)
R. v. Jackey. Source: Australian, 6 May 1834. An aboriginal native named Jacky Jacky, committed to take trial for the murder of a white man at Mr. Mossman's farm on Williams's River. [Decisions of the Superior Courts of New South Wales, 1788-1899. Published by the Division of Law Macquarie University]
N.S.W. Legislative Council Committee - Select Committee on the Condition of the Aborigines. 1846 New South Wales. Aborigines. Replies to a Circular Letter, addressed to the Clergy, of all Denominations, By Order of The Select Committee on the Condition of the Aborigines.Ordered, By the Council, To be Printed 31st October 1846. Sydney: Printed by W.W. Davies, At the Government Printing Office. [Archive shelf location B9841-B9842]
The following replies relating to the local region transcribed by Margaret Fryer and Gionni di Gravio (HTML file): Reverend C.P.N. Wilton, (Newcastle); Reverend George K. Rusden, (East Maitland); Reverend George Augustus Middleton, (Morpeth); Reverend Robert Thorley Bolton, (Hexham); Reverend John Jennings Smith, (Paterson); Reverend Joseph Cooper, (Falbrook and Jerry’s Plains) Reverend William Ross, (Paterson); Reverend Robert Stewart, (Newcastle).
Hale, Horatio. United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838,1839, 1840, 1841, 1842.Under the Command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Ethnography and Philology by Horation Hale, Philologist of the Expedition. [Philadelphia]: Lea and Blanchard, 1846. Excerpt "The Languages of Australia"; pp.479-531. ( 3.04 MB PDF)
Another version is available on the website of The United State Exploring Expedition, 1838 - 1842 (Smithsonian Institution Libraries Digital Collection): Hale, Horatio. Ethnology and Philology by Horatio Hale. Philadelphia: C. Sherman, 1846. Philological Part. The Languages of Australia pp. 479 - 531. ( 2.32 MB PDF)
Tindale's "Aboriginal Tribes", under Geawegal says:"Northern tributaries of the Hunter River to Murru-rundi; at Muswellbrook, Aberdeen, Scone, and Mount Royal Range. Affiliated with the coastal Worimi. The grammar and vocabulary published by Hale (1845), following Threl-keld (1834), relates principally to this tribe. The ascription of it to Kamilaroi by Hale is an unexplained error, although the languages are closely related. Hale indicated the dominance of unvoiced consonants in the two languages he studied, hence the best spelling of this tribal name could well be Keawekal or Keawaikal ('no sayers')."
Threlkeld, L.E. "Language of the Australian Aborigines" in Waugh’s Australian Almanac for the Year 1858. Sydney: James Waugh, 1858 pp.60-80. (771 KB PDF)
