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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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Listen all men to this book of ours, of Moka, of Tuwakawa, of Patu &c. &c. We let 1835. 20 November.Bay of Islands District. go and sell to Mr. Baker for him for his Children to sit upon to sell or do as he pleases with that land, a piece of the large Swamp, a piece of Kotia Tangata, a piece of Puketutu, and also the headland above the cultivations of Matauhi. The boundary is this: the road by the side of the Pa agreeing with the fence of the sitting place of Moka, and Puketutu, Etc. cutting the Swamp in a line to Moka’s Residence: to the road by which the Church land Charles Baker. is bounded, thence by the side of the land where the Church stands untilyou come to Boundaries. Matauhi, keeping the side of Matauhi Swamp, leaving out the flat land where Brind’s house stands, keeping along the side of the flat land, ascending to the eminence of Puketutu, descending to the large Swamp agreeing with the Trench fixed upon for a mark. The payment was this: two pounds in money, one blanket, ten spades, twelve hatchets, Receipt. six hoes, six scissors, ten pounds of tobacco. Therefore we write our marks to this giving up, to, this sale, on the twentieth day of November One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.

[Signatures.]

[Witnesses.]

A True Transcript of Certified Copy of Original Deed and Enclosures. No.255a.O.L.C.

H. Hanson Turton.

Welliagton, 12th February, 1879.