The Boyd was a 395 ton brigantine convict ship which sailed from Sydney Cove to Whangaroa on the east coast of Northland Peninsula in New Zealand in October 1809, under the command of a Captain John Thompson and carrying about 70 passengers. Look up ton in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Description In sailing, a brigantine is a vessel with two masts, at least one of which is square rigged. ... The term Convict ship is colloquially used to describe any ship engaged on a voyage to carry convicted felons under sentence of transportation from their place of conviction to their place of banishment. ... Sydney Cove is a small bay on the southern shore of Port Jackson (commonly but incorrectly called Sydney Harbour), on the coast of the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... The North Auckland Peninsula, frequently referred to simply as the Northland Peninsula, is located in the far north of the North Island of New Zealand. ... Look up October in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Year 1809 (MDCCCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... John Thompson is the name of: // Academics Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson (1898–1975), English archeologist and Mayan scholar John G. Thompson (b. ...

Aboard the ship was George, the son of a Māori chief from Whangaroa. He asked to work his passage on the boat, but once on board he refused to obey certain orders claiming he had bad health and that he was the son of a chief. He was flogged twice. Languages Māori, English Religions Māori religion, Christianity Related ethnic groups other Polynesian peoples, Austronesian peoples The word Māori refers to the indigenous people of New Zealand and their language. ... The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view. ...

On reaching Whangaroa, where the Boyd was to pick up kauri spars, George reported the indignities he had been subjected to and showed the marks on his back where he had been whipped. The Māori extracted utu (revenge) by killing all but four of the seventy Europeans on board, and eating many of them. Binomial name Agathis australis (D. Don) Loudon The Kauri (Agathis australis) is a coniferous tree native to the northern North Island of New Zealand. ... SPARS was the United States Coast Guard Womens Reserve created in 1942 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ... This article is about the continent. ...

The ship The City of Edinburgh, went to Whangaroa with Alexander Berry, to deal with the aftermath of the massacre. Berry rescued four survivors, an apprentice named Davies, and a woman with two children. He captured two Māori chiefs responsible for the massacre but, after threatening them with death and securing the Boyd's ship papers, released them as slaves rather than chiefs. His clemency did avoid a bloodshed, which would have been inevitable if he had executed the men. The former chiefs themselves expressed him gratitude for his clemency. Alexander Berry (November 30, 1781- September 17, 1873) was a Scottish born surgeon, merchant and explorer who in 1822 was given a land grant of 10,000 acres (40 km²) and 100 convicts to establish the first European settlement on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. ... The word massacre has a number of meanings, but most commonly refers to individual events of deliberate and direct mass killing, especially of noncombatant civilians or other innocents, that would often qualify as war crimes or atrocities. ... The Buxton Memorial Fountain, celebrating the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834, London. ...

External links

• A comprehensive report of this incident written by Tony Flude