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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.

1835. 6 November.Listen all men to this book of ours of Warenui, of Hakira, of Arahi. We let go and Onekura. sell to Mr. Baker for him for his children to sit upon to sell or to do as he pleases with Charles Baker. that piece of land called Onekura at Kororareka of ours. The boundary is this. On Boundaries. the North by the kumara houses of Nga ta Poro thence running to Matauhi: the page 133boundary on the West, the large Swamp until you come to the piece let go by Tinana Receipt. and others to Mr. Baker: the boundary on the South the land already gone to Mr. Baker until you come to Matauhi: the boundary on the East Matauhi. The payment was this, Seven. Blankets, two Hoes, two Adzes, one Spade, one Box, one hundred heads of Tobacco, fifty Pipes. Therefore we write our marks to this giving up, to this sale, on the sixth day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.

[Signatures.]

[Witnesses.]

True Translation.

Henry Tacy Kemp.