Translation.
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.
Welliagton, 12th February, 1879.