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Deeds—No. 64. Sale of Lands by Chief Taonui to Baron de Thierry.
1840. 15 JanuaryHokinga District.Be it known to all men that I the Chief Tao Nui do hereby grant
sell surrender and make over to Charles Baron de Thierry Sovereign Chief for him
his heirs executors administrators and assigns for Ever for. and in consideration
of the sum of Four Hundred Pounds Sterling now in hand paid by Two Promissory
Notes at three and six months date from the present day all the Lands Woods and
Waters situated in the places boundaries and limits known by the names of Wai Papa
ko te Paupou ko te Titaha ko Manga Pukahukahu ko te iringa o Tuou ko Manga Pa ko
te Koro Tangi ko heka Pukatea ko Ngeruohati ko te Takapou ko Mataroa ko
Mangahorehore ko Baron de Thierry's Purchase Manga Kino ko Pae Pae te Hengia ko te Rimo Whakataratara ko Mokou ko te
Waituku-tawatawa ko Paparoa ko te Upoko-Peutoko ko Kura Nui ko Oro Ngo Iti ko Oro
Ngo. Nui ko Perere together with all the Sovereign rights and privileges of
Chieftancy thereunto belonging and I the said Tao Nui do hereby covenant and agree
that all the said Lands Woods and Waters together with all the Sovereign rights
and privileges of Chieftancy do from this day and shall remain for ever the sole
property of the said Charles Baron de Thierry his heirs executors administrators
and assigns and I the said Receipt for £400 paid by Two Promissory Notes. Tao Nui do further declare that the payment of the Promissory notes now
received from the said Charles Baron de Thierry shall be a full payment and
satisfaction for the territories and privileges thereby sold granted and conveyed
to the said Charles Baron de Thierry Signed sealed and delivered at Mount Isabel
this Fifteenth day of January in the Year One Thousand Eight hundred and Forty.
Signed in presence of—
Charles de Thierry.
M. Neilson.
Emily, Baroness de Thierry.
X The Mark of Tao Nui.
I have this day and on delivery of this deed handed to the Tao Nui in presence of the above witnesses two Promissory Notes for Two Hundred Pounds each at three and six months January 15th 1840.This 17th day of January 1840 The Tao Nui (in presence of Kaitoki and Taua his brother of Teremoeroa and several other Chiefs) added Five districts which were unintentionally omitted in the above deed and which were intended to have been included in the body of the deed the whole number stand in the following order and form parts and parcels of the same estate. 1 Waipapa, 2 Ko te Poupou, 3 Ko te Taepatua, 4 Ko te Titaha, 5 Kura Nui, 6 Ko Wai Tuku Huru Huru, 7 Ko Oro ngo Iti, 8 Ko Oro ngo Nui, 9 Ko Tereu, 10 Ko Manga Pakahukahu, 11 Ko to hi nga o Turu, 12 Ko Manga Pa, 13 Ko te Koro Tangi, 14 Ko te Papa Pukatea, 15 Ko Ngeruohati, 16 Ko te Takapou o Korohama, 17 Ko Mataroa, 18 Ko Manga horehore, 19 Ko te Kowhatu Hapai, 20 Ko Manga Kino, 21 Ko Pae Pae te Hengia, 22 Ko te Rimo Whakataratara, 23 Ko Mokou, 24 Ko te Wai Tuku Tawatawa, 25 Ko Paparoa, 26 Ko te Upoko Peutoko, 27 Ko Uma Uma Whakapu.
Charles Baron de Thierry.
Receipt for £5, earnest money. This seventeenth day of April 1840 I have received five Pounds as an earnest of the above the remainder of the first instalment of the two hundred Pounds to stand over for payment until a Commission shall have decided on the validity of the present deed.X The mark of the Tao Nui.
A true transcript of Office Copy of Original Deed.
Wellington, 7th February, 1876