(Enclosure in No. 129.)
Transfer from Benjamin E. Turner to
John Evans.
Indenture of Transfer of Two pieces or parcels of land
situated and being on Kororarika 1838. 30 October. Beach, also a House attached and described as follows: Kororareka Beach.
1st. A piece or parcel of land containing a house purchas’d by Mr. Benjaman Transfer from Benjamin E. Turner to J. Evans. Evans Turner on November 19th 1833 from Titory and Ewy two Native Chiefs
of New Zealand having thirty-four feet frontage and fifty-four feet in depth.
2nd. A piece or parcel of Land purchas’d by Mr. Benjaman Turner on 23rd Octr.
1835 from Puss a Native Chief of New Zealand containing eight feet frontage
seventy-four deep and five feet Backwards.
Know all men by these presents entered into between Benjaman Turner of the one
part and John Evans of the other part both residents of Kororarika in the Bay of
Islands Witnesseth that for and in consideration of the sum of Eighty pounds
sterling of lawfull money of Great Britain to the said Benjaman Turner in hand
well and truly paid by the said John Evans upon or immediately before the sealing
and delivery of these presents the receipt hereof being sufficient discharge he
the said Benjaman Turner hath transferred
Receipt for £80. and by these presents doth transfer unto the said John Evans his heirs
executors administrators and assigns all his (the said Benjaman Turner) right
title and possession in the aforesaid Land herein first describeing To Have and to
hold unto the said John Evans his heirs Executors Administrators to the use and
behoof of the said John Evans his heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns for
ever and the said Benjaman Turner doth by these presents further agree to give
unto the said John Evans quiet
page 136possession of the land and House aforesaid and relinquish all right and Title
therein In Witness whereof we have Hereunto set our hands and seals this thirtieth
day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and
thirty-eight.
Benjaman Turner.
John Evans.
Witnesses—
John Johnson.
Richard Sykes.
True Copy.
Henry Kemp.
No. 89a.O.L.C. A True Transcript of Certified Copy of Original Deed and Transfer.
H. Hanson Turton.
Wellington,
6th November, 1878.