New Zealand Company, Original Correspondence. General, Folio 401-800 : Correspondence.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

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: Letters of enquiry and application for free passage to emigrate to New Zealand made mostly by surgeons, carpenters, furniture makers, labourers and their families. There is also a great deal of correspondence referring to the cargo and journey of the 'Victory', with enclosed items such as a detailed passenger list noting passenger names, ages, sex and whether they are settlers or labouring emigrants. Other letters relay continued efforts to promote and increase the sale of lands owned by the company, but also have a greater number of paying passengers emigrating to New Zealand as opposed to free labourers. Such letters again shed light on the financial struggles the Company faced when a lack of wealthy land owners and settlers failed to emigrate as anticipated to counter the expenses incurred by offering free passage to skilled labourers.

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 208/57.

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