New Zealand Company, Correspondence. Wellington Original Despatches, 1847 : 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 refer principally to surveying trips for selecting the site of the second colony of the New Zealand Company. Other letters refer to trips made by Governor George Grey to southern settlements to discuss with William Fox, and others, the recently passed act to make provision for the government of New Zealand, and to resume suspended proceedings in the settlement of the Company's titles to land. There are several letters and papers recording statements and notices of land transfers, orders and exchanges in Wellington, with later letters referring to draft grants sent to the New Zealand Company for the Port Nicholson district. Many letters are sent between Governor Grey and Francis Dillon Bell, and refer directly to the Company's attempts to acquire Wairarapa, and the obstacles posed by the Maori. Military detachments raised against Maori forces and hostilities are also referred to.

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 208/105.

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