Supplement to the printed account of the destruction of the 'Boyd' showing how I avenged the massacre by Alexander Berry, ca. 1829

DLMSQ 330

fonds

1829

943302

Microfilm : CY 3611

1 volume of textual material (42 p.) - duplicated typescript - 27 cm.

Alexander Berry of the City of Edinburgh was the leader of the first party to reach Whangaroa after the massacre of the 'Boyd' by the natives of New Zealand in August 1809

Alexander Berry's account of the destruction of the ship 'Boyd' and massacre of the captain and crew, by the natives of Whangaroa, New Zealand.

A note at the end of the account states that from allusions in the text it would appear this supplementary statement was written at least 20 years after the event.

It relates publishing of his account of the massacre in Constable's Miscellany, the action he took to avenge the massacre and rescue the survivors and ships papers, and describes a visit to Annamooka Island, the shipwreck of the 'City of Edinburgh', the history of the survivors of the 'Boyd' massacre and his own return to Australia in the 'Royal George' and the establishment of a settlement on the Shoalhaven River, New South Wales.

‬Constable's miscellany of original and selected publications.‬ ‬Edinburgh : Constable & Co.,‎ ‬1828

Information transferred from Dixson Manuscript Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012.

Transferred from DLSPENCER 121

Watermarked 1906-7