11 Facts About Henry Hacking

Henry Hacking was an English-born sailor and explorer who was one of the first British colonists in New South Wales.

Henry Hacking is generally regarded as being the person responsible for shooting and killing the Aboriginal warrior Pemulwuy in 1802.

Henry Hacking was well regarded as an enforcer by the authorities at the outpost of Sydney and was employed in shooting expeditions to gather food and game for the colony.

Henry Hacking probably returned to England after the loss of the Sirius in 1790, as he returned to Sydney in the Royal Admiral in 1792.

Henry Hacking encountered a group of Awabakal people on the south side of the river, who informed him that the sailors had left earlier on foot, endeavouring to walk back to Sydney.

Henry Hacking did not believe them, and became agitated, shooting dead three Awabakal men.

Henry Hacking led many hunting expeditions to supplement meat rations for Australia's first settlers.

Henry Hacking was among the party that found the lost government cattle at Cowpastures in 1795.

In 1802, Henry Hacking shot and killed Pemulwuy, a Bediagal warrior who had killed and harassed settlers and who, since 1790, had been a wanted man.

In 1802, Henry Hacking shot and wounded Ann Holmes, his former mistress, for which crime he was sentenced to death but pardoned in 1803.

In 1804, Henry Hacking was appointed coxswain to the lieutenant-governor at Hobart.