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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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page 98

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1834. 7 March.Bay of Islands District.Learn all men from this Article which we Tenana, Huri, Matahuaki, Witirua, and Titore, Tenana’s Son, do sign on this Seventh day of March in the year of our Lord 1834, as a proof of the identity of the same that we Tenana, Huri, Titore, Matahuaki Angaiho.together with Witirua and party do make over to Mr. Davis, to his children, and to their Richard Davis.generations for ever a portion of land with all the timber and whatsoever is upon the land or may be under. It is estimated at twenty acres more or less and is known by the Boundaries.name of Angaiho. It is bounded on the South East by the land of Tenana and party: [20 acres.]on the North it joins the mill stream belonging to the Waimate Mission which stream is the boundary on that side: the shape of the above mentioned land is a perfect triangle, and lies South East of the Waimate Mission houses. Know, therefore, that the land described within the above mentioned boundaries, we Tenana, Huri, Titore, Witirua, together with Matahuaki and party do make over to Mr. Davis, to his children, and their generations for ever, and do receive from Mr. Davis in return as an equivalent for the above mentioned land, together with the timber and whatsoever is upon or may be Receipt.under the land as aforesaid, 10 Dollars, 2 Blankets, 1 Iron pot, 4 Axes, 1 Shirt, 3 prs. Scissors, and 3 Plane irons, together with 80 figs of Tobacco. And as a proof of the identity of this Article we do hereby sign our names.

[Witnesses.]

[Signatures.]