New Zealand Company, Original Correspondence. General, Folio 501-1000 : Correspondence.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Series:

Migration to new worlds.

Language:

English

French

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2017.

Language Note:

Text in English, French.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Description: Letters mainly relate to applications for emigration to the New Zealand colonies, land transfers and orders. Enquiries into colony conditions, opportunities and whether the Company are still offering assisted or free passage to agricultural labourers and mechanics are commonly made. Other letters remark on the inspection of emigrant vessels and the imminent meeting of ship owners and members of British shipping societies where the ministerial bill for the repeal of the navigational laws were to be discussed. There is also a printed list of members of the British Ladies' Female Emigrant Society, and others relating to the Society for the Promotion of Colonization. Reports on the solution of chloride zinc as a cleaning agent for wards of hospitals and sick chambers is also included. The death of Colonel Wakefield is mentioned with several letters.

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 208/63.

Description based on online resource (viewed on October 24, 2017).

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