Maori Deeds of Old Private Land Purchases in New Zealand, From the Year 1815 to 1840, with Pre-Emptive and Other Claims

Translation

Translation.

1835. 25 September.

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all men to this book of ours, of Tenana, of Huri. We let go and sell to Mr. Baker

Onekura.

a piece of land of Kororareka of ours—Oriekura (is the name), for him for his

Charles Baker.

Children to sit upon to sell or to do as he pleases for ever with it. The boundary is

Boundaries. [30 acres.]

this. On the South by Kotia Tangata where the Church stands from the Swamp.until you come to Matauhi: on the West by the side of the Swamp nineteen fathoms: then on the North until you come to Matauhi: on the East, the Swamp and Matauhi. The

Receipt.

payment we received was this, Four Blankets, ten dollars in money, two axes, two hoes, two combs, two scissors, ten pounds Tobacco, twenty pipes. Therefore we write our names to this giving up, to this, sale on the twenty-fifth day of September, One thousand Eight hundred and thirty-five.

[Signatures.]

[Witnesses.]

True Translation.

Henry Tacy Kemp.