Richard Thompson

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 25th June 2020

Richard Thompson New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842 Age: 20. Date of conviction: 2 Jan 1837 Place of Conviction: Central Criminal Court. Estimated birth year: abt 1817 Vessel: Charles Kerr. Port of Arrival: New South Wales Date of Arrival: 9 Oct 1837 Read & Write. Protestant. Single. Native Place: London Trade or calling: Shoemaker's apprentice. Offence: Stealing; Carpet 5 Ft 4 1/2 inches. Complexion: Ruddy. Brown Hair and Hazel Eyes ------------------------------------- Date of Death: 12 May 1840. 15 Mile Creek. Murdered by the Blacks. --------------------------------------- Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas. : 1828 - 1857) Tue 2 Jun 1840 Page 4 Sydney News. Extract of a letter, dated King's River, Oven's River, April 27th, 1840, addressed to J. W. Chisholm, Esq., by his overseer. " I write to inform you of the blacks having been at the Heifer Station, on the Fifteen Mile Creek, and stripped the hut of everything, and murdered Richard Thompson. They speared him in the back-tomahawked him in the head-scarred him in several other places about the arms and hands, and cut his body out to procure the fat, and afterwards put him in the water-hole facing the hut. Two of Mr. Cropper's fencers, were out at the station splitting stuff; they were stopping at the hut, and were at home to dinner, but saw no signs of any blacks about the station, but about half-past four, they heard Thompson's dog barking at the hut very hard, but they thought it was the man putting some of the heifers into the paddock, and took no notice of it, and when they arrived at the hut at sundown...........