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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | New Zealand Company, Original Correspondence. General, Folio 2501-3000 |
| Date | Sep-Oct 1849 |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Reference | CO 208/67 |
| Library / Archive | The National Archives |
| Collection Name | New Zealand Company Original Correspondence, etc. |
| Description | A number of letters concerning emigration to New Zealand, including applications for free passage. There are also a series of documents about communication by steamship around New Zealand. A large number of documents also concern land sales and purchases in New Zealand, and legal contests relating to this. |
| 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) | Colonisation Companies and Emigration Societies |
| Country (from) | Great Britain |
| Country (to) | New Zealand |
| Places | Otago, Wellington, New Zealand |
| Nationality | Scottish; English; European |
| Ships | Berkshire; Mary; Cornwall |
| People | Harington, Thomas Cudbert; Boulcott, Joseph; Lord Howick (Grey, Henry) (1802-1894) |
| Keywords | New Zealand Company, regulations, land, land sale, land grant, surveying, finance, wages, agent, merchant, law, trade, emigration, emigrant, family, free passage, women, marriage, communication, steamboat, insurance, shipping, temperance, labourer, farming |
| Language | English |
| Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |
