Thomas Quinn

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Background

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

Post 1854 Experiences

In late December 1854 Thomas Quinn made the following testimony:

I, Thomas Quinn, of Ballarat, in the Colony of Victoria, gold digger, do solemnly and sincerely declare that on Sunday morning the third day of December instant, after the firing had ceased and the military were retreating from the stockade on the Eureka, which they had just taken, both of my tents, situated one distant twenty-seven, and one twenty-one yards from the said stockade, were wilfully and maliciously fired, burnt down, and consumed, with the whole of the contents, by the troopers, who deliberately lit matches and applied them to the tents for that purpose, although any resistance that had encountered had then ceased, and the people fled from the scene of action: I do also solemnly and sincerely declare that the value of the property destroyed as aforesaid, consisting of the said tents, with the provisions, furniture, clothing, and ... [1]

See also

Military

Further Reading

Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.

Riot at Ballarat appointed to enquire into circumstances connected with the late disturbance at Ballarat together with the evidence taken by the board laid upon the Council table by the Colonial Secretary, by Command of His Excellency the lieutenant Governor and ordered by the Council to be printed 21st November, 1854.

References

  1. Riot at Ballarat appointed to enquire into circumstances connected with the late disturbance at Ballarat together with the evidence taken by the board laid upon the Council table by the Colonial Secretary, by Command of His Excellency the lieutenant Governor and ordered by the Council to be printed 21st November, 1854.

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