Editing Bennelong (section)

== Death ==
He died on 3 January 1813 at Kissing Point on the [[Parramatta River]] in Sydney and was buried in the orchard of the brewer [[James Squire]], a friend to Bennelong and his clan.{{sfn|Smith|2009|pp=23–24}} His death notice in the ''[[Sydney Gazette]]'' was dismissive,{{efn|"Bennelong died on Sunday morning last at Kissing Point. Of this veteran champion of the native tribe little favourable can be said. His voyage to, and benevolent treatment in Great Britain produced no change whatever in his manners and inclinations, which were naturally barbarous and ferocious. The principal Officers of Government had for many years endeavoured, by the kindest of usage to wean him from his original habits, and draw him into a relish for civilized life ; but every effort was in vain exerted, and for the last few has been little noticed. His propensity to drunkenness was inordinate; and when in that state he was insolent, menacing and overbearing. In fact, he was a thorough savage, not to be warped from the form and character that nature gave him, by all the efforts that mankind could use."{{sfn|Gazette|1813|p=2}}}} insisting that "he was a thorough savage, not to be warped from the form and character that nature gave him"{{mdash}}which reflected the feelings of some in Sydney's white society that Bennelong had abandoned his role as ambassador in his last years, and also reflects the deteriorating relations between the two groups as more and more land was cleared and fenced for farming, and the hardening attitudes of many colonists towards "savages" who were not willing to give up their country and become labourers and servants useful to the colonists.{{sfn|Fullagar|2009b|p=46}}{{sfn|Karskens|2010|pp=83-91,422}}

Bennelong's people mourned his death with a traditional highly ritualised battle for which about two hundred people gathered.{{sfn|Fullagar|2015|p=37}} As a profound mark of respect, Colebee's nephew [[Nanbaree]], who died in 1821, asked to be buried with Bennelong.{{sfn|Smith|2009|p=24}} Bennelong's final wife, [[Boorong]], was also interred in the same gravesite. Bidgee Bidgee, who led the Kissing Point clan for twenty years after Bennelong's death, asked to be buried with Bennelong as well, but there is no record of his death or of where he is buried.{{sfn|Smith|2009|p=24}}

On 20 March 2011, Peter Mitchell of [[Macquarie University]] announced that he had located Bennelong's grave site under a residential property at present-day 25 Watson Street, [[Putney, New South Wales]], and stated that local Aboriginal authorities would be consulted about possible further exploration of the site.{{sfn|Duff|2011}} In November 2018, the [[Government of New South Wales|New South Wales Government]] announced that it had bought the house and would turn the site into a public memorial to Bennelong, together with a museum commemorating the impact of British colonisation on the Aboriginal people of the Sydney area.{{sfn|Anon.|2018}}