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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | New Zealand Company, Original Correspondence. General, Folio 1-373 |
| Date | Jan-Dec 1852 |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Newspaper |
| Reference | CO 208/78 |
| Library / Archive | The National Archives |
| Collection Name | New Zealand Company Original Correspondence, etc. |
| Description | Letters and applications sent to Directors of the New Zealand Company by those wishing to emigrate to New Zealand, principally to serve as surveyors of land, teachers and agriculturalists. There are letters and enclosed shipping orders relative to transporting British emigrants to the Canterbury settlement, land orders, titles, transfers and re-adjustments, along with printed copies of 'Assessed Tax' forms from 1853-1854. A copy of 'The Times', no. 20344, dated Tuesday 27 November 1849 is also included towards the end. |
| 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; Ships and Shipping Lines |
| Country (from) | Great Britain |
| Country (to) | New Zealand |
| Places | Auckland, Canterbury, Otago, New Zealand; Perth, Scotland; London, England |
| Ports | Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Wellington, Nelson, New Plymouth, New Zealand |
| Nationality | English; European |
| Ships | Steadfast; Stag; Bolton; Phoebe Dunbar; Minerva |
| People | Harrington, Thomas Cudbert; Goldsmith, Isaac; Heath, John; Young, Frederick; Constable, John; Knowles, John; Carrington, Frederick; Irving, George P |
| Keywords | New Zealand Company, emigrant, emigration, emigration scheme, colony, colonisation, application, assisted emigration, finance, land sale, allotments, land, agent, administration, shipping, family, settlement, accounts, insurance, banking, Union Bank of Australia, Canterbury Association, Board of Trade, free passage, labourer, agriculture, expenses, freight, tax, ship owner, passenger, commissionaires, marriage, farming, agriculture, employment, advertisement |
| Language | English |
| Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |
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