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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

Additional Purchase for Mission Families, No. 2

Additional Purchase for Mission Families, No. 2.

1835. 4 September.Poutoitoi.We whose names are hereunto affixed do from henceforth give up and renounce for ever in our own names and in the names of our children and Tribe all the Land, trees and bushes called Poutoitoi and every thing else upon the said land to Mr. James Kemp in, Mission children. and on the behalf of the Children of the Church Missionary Society’s Missionaries in New Zealand, all the land adjoining the land belonging to the Missionaries’ Children on the 4th of September in the year of our Lord 1835. Bounded on the East and North Boundaries. [100 acres.] by the Missionaries’ Children’s land, On the South by a road leading to Taiamai, On the West by a creek at the foot of a hill called Poukaka, containing 100 acres of land more or less. In consideration of which the following articles have been received by Receipt. the chiefs whose names and signatures are hereunto affixed, viz., 8 Blankets, 6 Hoes, 20 lbs. Tobacco, 30 Pipes, 1 Spade, 5 Iron Pots, 200 Fish hooks, 30 Pipes.

Wakarua his mark x.
Motu his mark x.
Ware his mark x.
Tango his mark x.

Witness—
John Shepherd.
John Edmonds.

True Copy.

Henry Tact Kemp.

No. 309a.O.L.C. A True Transcript of Certified Copies of Original Deeds.

H. Hanson Turton.

Wellington, 30th August, 1880.