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

Translation

Translation.

1836. 1 December.

Know

all men who may see this document that we Tara and people, Waru and people,

Tamaki Block.

Ruapuke and people, Chiefs of Ngatiterau have given up entirely and sold to Mr.

Wairoa.

Fairburn that portion of land called Kumekume, Tapuika, and all places on the River

W. T. Fairburn.

Wairoa, the country, the lands, the woods, and all things above and below all that tract of land, for him and for his Children for ever, to sell, cultivate or do with as they

Boundaries.

please. And the boundaries of that piece of land are these. On the upper (or Southern) side, the Wairoa is the boundary, go on from thence to Papakura; on the Western side, Manukau is the boundary; and at Otahuhu in Tamaki it ends. And these are the payments

Receipt.

which we have received for that tract of land, for the woods, for the rivers, and for all things above and below that land, Twenty-five Blankets, Fifteen Axes, Ten Adzes, Ten Iron-pots, Fifteen Hatchets, Half a Cask of Tobacco, Ten Shirts, Ten pair

Trowsers, Ten Spades, Ten plane-irons. Witness here our signatures written this day the first of December, in the year of our Lord, One thousand Eight hundred and Thirty-six.