(Enclosure No. 1.)
Deed of Gift from rev. Henry Williams to
Colonel Wakefield.
Port Nicholson, April 29th, 1840.
Memorandum of Deed of Gift from the Henry Williams of the Bay of
1840. 29 April.Port Nicholson.Pipitea. Islands of certain lands at Port Nicholson to
Colonel William Wakefield in
trust for the
Deed of gift to New Zealand Land Company. New Zealand Land Company Witnesseth that the Henry Williams is now
lawfully possessed according to the Law and Custom of the Native inhabitants of
New Zealand of certain tracts of land at Port Nicholson in a place now commonly
called Thorndon, and which has been selected as the site of the principal Town to
be formed in the territories of the New Zealand Land Company and that the said
lands so lawfully claimed by the said Henry Williams do extend from the Beach
called by the native inhabitants Teraekaihau to the mountain called Tinakore and
bounded on the Southern side by the Brook called Pipitea and on the Northern side
by the brook called Raurimu, which lands the Henry Williams doth hereby give grant
and surrender to the said
Colonel William Wakefield in trust for the said New
Zealand Land Company their heirs executors administrators and assigns for ever in
fee simple in the same absolute and unqualified manner in which he doth claim or
possess the same with the following condition and reservation only namely that
when the said lands shall have been surveyed by the agents of the New Zealand Land
Company and divided into building allotments of one acre each the said Henry
Williams or his agents
Two acres reserved for Rev. H. Williams. shall at his or their discretion select for the said Henry Williams any
two acres of land within the said boundaries of the land hereinbefore mentioned as
belonging to the said Henry Williams which two acres of land so selected shall
thenceforth be effectually secured to the said Henry Williams his heirs executors
administrators and assigns for ever as an Estate in fee simple according to the
Laws of England and this he doth out of good will and in consideration of all
charges for surveying and selecting the said lands and for effectually warranting
and securing to him the title to the said two acres of land being defrayed by the
Agents of the said New Zealand Land Company, and this he doth moreover on behalf
of himself as well as of the original native owner or owners of the aforesaid
Lands and of all persons claiming through him or through them as aforesaid. In
Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals as parties to the same
this twenty-ninth day of April 1840.
Sd. Henry Williams. L.S.
Sd.
Reihana Deweti. L.S.
Sd. W. W. Smith, Surveyor-General. L.S.
Sd. Geo. Saml. Evans. L.S.
Signed sealed and delivered this 29th day of April 1846 in the presence
of—
Sd. Robert Stokes Ass. Surveyor.
Sd. G. T. Palmer.
Sd. Wm.
Maxwell.
A true copy, the same having been compared with the Original Memorandum by
us.
Robt. Thos. C. Yates,
Comr's. Secy.
Edw. Hardy,
Gentn., Auckland.