Translation.
Listen all men to this book of ours, of Moka, of Tuwakawa, of Patu &c.
&c. We let
1835. 20 November. Bay of Islands District.
go and sell to Mr. Baker for him for his Children to sit upon to sell or do as he pleases with that land, a piece of the large Swamp, a piece of Kotia Tangata, a piece of Puketutu, and also the headland above the cultivations of Matauhi. The boundary is this: the road by the side of the Pa agreeing with the fence of the sitting place of Moka, andPuketutu, Etc.
cutting the Swamp in a line to Moka’s Residence: to the road by which the Church land is bounded, thence by the side of the land where the Church stands untilyou come toBoundaries.
Matauhi, keeping the side of Matauhi Swamp, leaving out the flat land where Brind’s house stands, keeping along the side of the flat land, ascending to the eminence of Puketutu, descending to the large Swamp agreeing with the Trench fixed upon for a mark. The payment was this: two pounds in money, one blanket, ten spades, twelve hatchets,Receipt.
six hoes, six scissors, ten pounds of tobacco. Therefore we write our marks to this giving up, to, this sale, on the twentieth day of November One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.[Signatures.]
[Witnesses.]
A True Transcript of Certified Copy of Original Deed and Enclosures. No.255 a.O.L.C.
Welliagton, 12th February, 1879.