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'Better known in the colony as 'Black Tom', or Tom Birch, Kickerterpoller was taken by whitemen from the Paredarererme clan as a young boy. The Paredarererme clan belonged to the Oyster Bay nation whose area covered the coastal fringe from St Patrick's Head to the eastern edge of the Derwent River. Kickerterpoller was raised in the households of Mrs. Birch and Mrs. Hodgson respectively. He was baptised into the Christian faith and had spent time in the bush with armed roving parties who were searching for clanspeople. It seem likely that Kickerterpoller followed the trend of other captive clanspeople and returned to his people to support them when the war escalated towards the close of the 1820s.' (https://www.utas.edu.au/telling-places-in-country/historical-context/historical-biographies/kickerterpoller