New Zealand Company, Correspondence. Wellington Original Despatches, 1850 : Correspondence; Personal Account.

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 predominantly sent or received by William Fox, Agent of the New Zealand Company in Wellington. Includes copies of letters and the journal of Mr Hamilton, sent to Fox and compiled by Hamilton as he travelled from Wellington to Port Cooper with local Maori, surveying the surrounding lands, especially near Otago, for speculative New Zealand Company settlement and expansion plans. Other letters and enclosures record statements of the provisions, medical comforts, et cetera expended on board various emigrant vessels such as the 'Eden' for victualling passengers. There are passenger lists and records made by surgeons on board these ships attached. Letters also specifically refer to the emigration of single females sent on the 'Phoebe Dunbar' by the Ladies Female Emigration Society of Edinburgh to Nelson. Statements of land sales in areas such as Whanganui and Nelson created by the company are also enclosed within letters, with many letters discussing legal issues arising from advertisements issued to prospective purchasers encouraging them to send applications for conveyances to Company agents. The general financial accounts of the Company are also referred to throughout these 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 208/109.

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