Kororareka Beach (Land. on), Bay of Islands District.
Memorandum
of an Assignment made and entered into this twenty-ninth day of1827. 29 December. Bay of Islands District.
December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, Witnesseth that Kivie Kivie a Chief of Korroradika in New Zealand for a considerationKororareka Beach.
already received doth make over and confirm to John Johnson now residing at Korroradika his heirs and assigns for ever a certain portion of land situate at Korroradika asJohn Johnson.
aforesaid and bounded in manner following that is to say in length along the Beach atBoundaries.
low water mark in a North and South direction (as measured from a line of One[2 acres.]
hundred and sixty eight feet in length and drawn from a certain Tapu post and passing the end of a certain sawpit to the low water mark) for a distance of One hundred and eighty feet, and the said land is also bounded in an East and West direction by a line drawn at right angles from the said low water mark and extending up the hill for a distance of Six hundred feet, and the said land is further bounded by the lands on the South side of Maianga commonly called King Charley, and on the North by the lands of Wari Umu commonly called King George. And the consideration mentioned above as haying been received by the said Kivie Kivie and for which he grants the above mentioned land is noted on the other side at the foot of this Agreement. In Witness whereof the said Kivie Kivie has set his hand at Kororadika the day and year first written.Kivie Kivie his x mark.
Witness—
Sd. John McLean.
John Matthews.
Receipt.
or less. Seven Houses builded on the same Ground.