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New Zealand Company, Original Correspondence. General, Folio 2001-3500 : Correspondence; Shipping Papers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reid, Peter, author.
- Roberts, D., author.
- Rait, Walker, author.
- Robin, George, author.
- Ryland, Arthur, author.
- Campbell, James, author.
- Roberts, Richard, author.
- Bell, Sir Francis Dillon, author.
- Reeves, Orlando, author.
- Knowles, William, author.
- Stewart, John, author.
- Saxton, Charles, author.
- Yates, R B, author.
- Atkinson, Joseph, author.
- Series:
- Migration to new worlds.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2017.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Description: Several letters, most of which are addressed to the Chairman and Board of Directors of the New Zealand Company. Many refer to strategies to encourage land surveyors, agricultural and industrial labourers deemed "the most valuable colonists" to emigrate to New Zealand. Likewise, there are also letters discussing attempts to encourage the emigration of wealthy British families who might purchase Crown lands in New Zealand. Many letters comprise of applications made to emigrate to New Zealand, detailing applicants' marital status, employment, social class, sum and means of affording the fee for passage. The financial depression hitting markets throughout Great Britain are referenced in several instances as motivation for emigration applications. Also included is a copy of a royal patent for 'Pocock's Patent Asphalte Sheathing' (felt to be shipped to the New Zealand colonies), and on the reverse is printed an advert for 'Free Passage from Liverpool to New South Wales". There is also a printed copy of 'Testimonials, in favour of Dr William Mackie Turnbull, licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, member of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society'.
- Notes:
- 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.
- AMDigital Reference: CO 208/15.
- Description based on online resource (viewed on October 24, 2017).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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