| Description |
8 volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Historical records of Victoria. Foundation series |
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Historical records of Victoria. Foundation series.
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| Contents |
v. 1. Beginnings of permanent government / edited by Pauline Jones -- v. 2A. The Aborigines of Port Phillip, 1835-1839 -- v. 2B. Aborigines and protectors, 1838-1839 -- v. 3. The early development of Melbourne / associate editor: Ian Macfarlane -- v. 4. Communications, trade and transport -- v. 5. Surveyors' problems and achievements, 1836-1839 -- v. 6. The Crown, the land, and the squatter, 1835-1840 --v. 7. Public finance of Port Phillip 1836-1840. --v.8. Cumulative Indexes / edited by Ian MacFarlane |
| Summary |
V. 2A, 2B :Official and private papers dealing with early contacts between settlers and Aborigines; appointment of Protectors of Aborigines, reports of hostilities, extracts from House of Commons Select Committee on Aborigines, Buntingdale (Wesleyan) and Port Phillip missions, Native Police Corps; subsistence and material culture observed; papers of J.R. Orton, G.M. Langhorne, J. Dredge, W. Thomas; careers of F. Fyans, C.W. Sievwright, E.S. Parker; policies on care of Aboriginal orphans and servants, legal rights and protection; index to individual Aborigines -- V.6 :Reproduced primary documents containing mainly brief references to Aborigines; accounts by various members of Mitchells 1836 expedition of conflict with Aborigines near Lake Benanee and associated Legislative Council inquiry documents; the Port Phillip Association and attitude to Aboriginal land rights; complaints of attacks on livestock and settlers in objections to the Squatting Act, 1839; treatment of Aborigines in the standing orders of the Border Police; mention of battle with Aborigines at Yering 1840 - arrest and escape of Jackie Jackie; Tyers expedition; conflict on Mount Wedge station; financing the Protectors of Aborigines -- v. 8: Cumulative indexes to vols 1-7; index of Aboriginal personal names |
| Notes |
At head of title: Public Record Office, Victoria |
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Includes indexes |
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Vols. 6,7 & 8 published by Melbourne University Press on behalf of the Government of Victoria |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Issuing Body |
Vols. 6 & 8 published by Melbourne University Press on behalf of the Government of Victoria |
| SUBJECT |
Victoria http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79046608 -- Appropriations and expenditures http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002007884 -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 -- 1834-1851
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Victoria -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007556 -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012010
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Victoria -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007556 -- 1834-1851
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Victoria http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79046608 -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011436 -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012010
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| Author |
Cannon, Michael, 1929-
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Victoria. Public Record Office.
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| LC no. |
83240900 |
| ISBN |
0522848427 |
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0724182594 |
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0724182624 |
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0724182659 |
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