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Title New Zealand Company, Wellington Original Despatches, 1844
Date Jan-Dec 1844
Document Type Correspondence; Map; Newspaper
Reference CO 208/102
Library / Archive The National Archives
Collection Name New Zealand Company Original Correspondence, etc.
Description Letters relating to land orders, transfers and surveying trips made in the New Zealand Company's first land purchase. Most are sent and received by the Secretary of State, the principle agent of the company, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, and the principal surveyor, Samuel Charles Brees. There are letters instructing persons to complete surveys of land surrounding Wellington available for immediate cultivation and settlement and intended to be granted to purchasers in London. Other letters refer to negotiations of payment made to the Māori from whom the land was purchased, with many enclosing notes documenting meetings held between Governor Fitzroy and Māori chiefs to discuss land claims and dispute sales. There are also copies of accounts for settlements of Wellington and Nelson, and New Zealand newspapers record articles relative to the Company and features advertisements of shipping companies and merchants.
Series Description This series contains original correspondence and entry books of the New Zealand Company which were handed over to the Colonial Office after the surrender of the company's charters in 1850. Also included are minutes, accounts, registers of emigrants and land transfer records.
Biographical Note / History The New Zealand Company was a chartered company formed in 1839 and incorporated in 1841 with power to buy, sell, settle and cultivate land in New Zealand. It did not prove a satisfactory agency for colonising New Zealand and was induced to surrender its charters in 1850. It was finally dissolved in 1858.
Theme(s) Politics, Legislation and Governance; Colonisation Companies and Emigration Societies
Places Auckland, Wairarapa, Whanganui, New Zealand; London, England
Ports Wellington, New Zealand; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality English; European; Māori
Ships George Fyfe; Tyrian; Indemnity; Wanderer; Lively
People Harrington, Thomas Cudbert; Wakefield, Edward Gibbon; Clarke, George; Brees, Samuel Charles; Bell, Sir Francis Dillon; Fox, William; Fitzroy, Governor Charles Augustus; Rogan, John; Watson, John; Hughes, William; Daniel, H C; Kelham, Jason; Clifford, Charles; Spain, William
Keywords New Zealand Company, emigrant, emigration, emigration scheme, colony, colonisation, agent, surveying, land grant, land, settlement, agriculture, indigenous people, land sale, purchase agreement, compensation, finance, border, allotments, law, church, banking, Union Bank of Australia, wages, expenditure, cartography, religion, Wesleyan, livestock, employment, advertisement, shipping, flax, manufacturing, industry, accounts, chief
Language English
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