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Tedbury | |
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| Born | c. 1780 Botany Bay, New South Wales |
| Died | c. April 1810 Parramatta |
Tedbury (c. 1780, Botany Bay – 1810, Parramatta), also known as Tidbury and Tjedboro, was a Darug Aboriginal Australian involved in frequent acts of resistance to British colonists in the early years of New South Wales. He was the son of noted warrior and rebel Pemulwuy.[1]
Tedbury was captured in 1805 and tried before the magistrate at Parramatta, Reverend Samuel Marsden.[2]: 155 [3] He was released at the behest of Aboriginal Australians who had participated in the capture of Musquito.[4]
Tedbury was an ally of John Macarthur and a frequent visitor to Elizabeth Farm. When Governor Bligh placed Macarthur under arrest in 1808, Tedbury offered to spear the governor.
He also took part in a robbery of a traveller named Tunks on Parramatta Road in 1809. The local newspaper reported at the time:
The son appears to have inherited the ferocity and vices of his father : Upon the above occasion he pointed his spear to the head and breast of Tunks, and repeatedly threatened to plunge the weapon into him ; but other persons fortunately appearing in sight, the assailants betook to the woods. Several other such attacks have been made, but as Tedbury is stated to have always been of the party, which consisted; but of two or three, it may be inferred that a spirit of malevolence is far from general; and under this belief, it may be hoped the settlers will not permit their servants or families to practice unnecessary severities which may irritate, and provoke those who are at present peaceably disposed, to join in the atrocities of a few miscreants, whom their own tribes, if not exasperated by ill treatment, would no doubt as they have frequently done before, betray into our hands, and avowedly assist in apprehending.[5]
- ^ Kohen, J. L. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
- ^ Parry, Naomi (2007). Ingereth Macfarlane, Mark Hannah (ed.). 'Hanging no good for blackfellow': looking into the life of Musquito. Australian National University. ISBN 9781921313431. Retrieved 9 February 2017., Transgressions, Critical Australian Indigenous Histories
- ^ "Sydney". The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser. New South Wales: National Library of Australia. 19 May 1805. p. 2. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
- ^ "Sydney". The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser. New South Wales: National Library of Australia. 4 August 1805. p. 1. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
- ^ "Sydney". The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser. New South Wales: National Library of Australia. 3 September 1809. p. 2. Retrieved 25 February 2014.