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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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1834. 17 September.Te Kauri.This is to certify that we Ngataumanu, Toenga and Timoko and our children on this James Hamlin. day the 17th of September in the year of our Lord 1834, give up and renounce for ever to James Hamlin his heirs and successors assignee or assigns all that parcel of land called Te Kauri with every kind or description of wood growing, lying or standing upon the same which said parcel of land is 30 acres more or less and lies to the West of the Boundaries. [30 acres.] Church Missionary Settlement called Waimate, and is Bounded on the North West by a Native fortification called Morakerake, and by some land bought by Mr. James Kemp page 113of Rewa, Titoki and Tohu: on the West by a wood called Kaharau and Keho: on the South it is bounded by some land bought by Mr. George Clarke of Rangi and Tuwakawaka and by a sacred place called the Mata: on the East it joins to a parcel of land bought by me by James Hamlin of Huarahi and Te Keho called te Mohowao: on the North it is bounded by a waikeri or gutter called Te Waipuna.
Receipt. As a payment for which parcel of land we Ngataumanu &c. and our children have received at the hands of the said James Hamlin the following things, viz. 5 axes, 3 hatchets, 3 adzes, 4 hoes, 2 iron pots, 1 box lock, 1 pr. hinges, 2 plane irons, 5 blankets, 25 dollars, 10 lbs. tobacco and 30 pipes. Witness our marks on this day the 17th of September 1834, at Waimate, New Zealand.

[Signatures.]

[Witnesses.]