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

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Translation.

1840. 24 January.Bay of Islands District.Listen all men to this writing of ours from Tukarangatia from Auaraki and from all of us, to which we have written our names and affixed our marks, to let go and sell to Samuel Ford for himself and his descendants for ever a piece of land at Waikari—the Raho, the Wahi manoumanou: for Samuel Ford this land with all things above and below for him to do with it as he pleases. Now the boundaries of this land are these: Te Raho.S. H. Ford. [50 acres.]Receipt. from the Taheremangemange, the beginning, going on past the Repo to the Raho and on to the Wai o Manou manou, and thence stretches to the Kiripaka above. The payment which we have received from this land is a Cow.
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Therefore we have written our names and made our marks to this letting go and selling the 24th day of January 1840.

[Witnesses.]

[Signatures.]

Henry Tacy Kemp.

No. 300b.O.L.C. A True Transcript of Certified Copy of Original Deed and Translation.

H. Hanson Turton.

Wellington, 23rd April, 1879.