George Briggs (sealer)

1816), an English convict in Van Diemen's Land, was a sealer in Bass Strait known for having children with at least one Aboriginal woman, Woretemoeteyenner, apparently with the consent of her father, the chief Lamanbunganah.

He wrote an account of the voyage some time after 1821,[1] in which he says: "The custom of the sealers in the straits was that every man should have from two to five of these native women for their own use and benefit, and to select any of them they thought proper to cohabit with as their wives; and a large number of children had been born in consequence of these unions—a fine active hardy race.

She bore Briggs five known children, including an infant girl (killed near Launceston in 1811; Aborigines threw the baby into a campfire), and Dolly Dalrymple.

His wife is the daughter of an Australian woman, who, with her sister, was taken to Tasmania at the time that Buckley was removed from Port Phillip to that colony.

His hair is grey; his complexion yellow—dull yellow; his teeth large, and not close together; his hair woolly, somewhat like that of a negro; his eyes dark-brown; his nose arched and almost Roman; his forehead well- shaped—not harsh and bony, but curved, and the lines are good: the frontal sinuses are not prominent.