Alexander Berry
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Alexander Berry was a Scottish-born colonist and merchant who, in 1822, was given a large land grant of 10,000 acres with 100 convicts to establish an estate on the south coast of New South Wales, Aus
Berry, c. 1856
Alexander Berry monument at Berry, NSW, Australia
Boyd massacre
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The Boyd massacre occurred in December 1809 when Māori of Ngāti Pou from Whangaroa Harbour in northern New Zealand killed and ate between 66 and 70 European passengers and crew members from the Britis
Alexander Berry
…of sandalwood. In 1809, Berry sailed from Fiji and stopped at the Bay of Islands in New Zealand to load a cargo of spars. News came through of the massacre of the crew and passengers of the ship Boyd by local Māori at nearby Whangaroa. The City of Edinburgh, with Berry, set sail for Whangaroa, where he rescued four survivors and the ship's papers…
The Blowing Up of the Boyd by Louis John Steele, 1889
Portrait of Elizabeth "Betsey" Broughton, painted in Sydney in 1814 by convict artist Richard Read Sr., National Library of Australia
Walter Wright's The Burning of the Boyd was executed in 1908 and is one of his best known paintings