Maori Deeds of Land Purchases in the North Island of New Zealand: Volume Two

Deed Receipts—No. 39

Deed Receipts—No. 39.

Margaret Stoodley's Claims in Wairarapa District.

Received

from Donald McLean Esquire, Land Commissioner, on behalf of the General

1855. 14 February. Wairarapa District.

Government of New Zealand the sum of Twenty pounds sterling, in full satisfaction of all my claims derived through the Ngatikahungunu tribe, to lands at Wairarapa and on

M. Stoodley's Claims.

the East Coast, which claims I hereby fully and entirely abandon and surrender to Her

Receipt for £20.

Majesty Victoria the Queen of England and her successors for ever. Dated at Wellington this fourteenth day of February, 1855.

Margaret Stoodley, formerly
Kaine, daughter of Te Maia.
James Stoodley her husband.

Witnesses—

Te Wereta Kawekairangi x.
G. S. Cooper.
Hoera Waka taha.

A True Copy of Original Receipt.

H. Hanson Turton.

Wellington, January 5th, 1876.