Record ID:
58472988 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1780
  • Port Jackson, New South Wales
Death:
  • 1825
Fields of activity:
  • Aboriginal resistance leader and tracker
Used for:
  • Musquito, 1780-1825
  • Musquetta
  • Bush Muschetta
  • Muskito
  • Yerrangoulaga, 1780-1825
Notes:
  • (Musquito (c.1780-1825), Aboriginal resistance leader and tracker, also known as Mosquito, Musquetta, Bush Muschetta or Muskito, was probably an Eora (Gai-Mariagal) man, born on the north shore of Port Jackson, New South Wales.In August 1824 Musquito was wounded and captured by an Aboriginal boy named Teague. After his recovery, Musquito and 'Black Jack', were charged with aiding and abetting the murder of a stockkeeper, and tried without oaths in the Supreme Court, Hobart Town, in December 1824. Musquito was convicted on dubious evidence, Jack on a second charge; both were hanged on 25 February 1825.)
  • [Biographical cuttings on King Musquito, bushranger, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals], 19uu title page (Musquito)
Local system number:
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX26314
  • (AuCNL)909593
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX108324
Cataloguing source:
  • AIAS
Authentication code:
  • anuc