New Zealand Company, Wellington Original Despatches, 1843 : Correspondence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wakefield, William Hayward, author.

Hunter, George, author.

Smith, Captain William, author.

Connell, William, author.

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 to and from the New Zealand Company officers, primarily Colonel Wakefield, discussing surveying of land, statements of accounts, solicitor letters regarding deceased persons' estates, discussions of road building by labourers, statement of instruments required by surveyors, reports of the Port Nicholson Mechanics Institute, official charter papers and power of attorney, reports of emigrant ship arrivals, exploratory reports from Captain William Smith, Surveyor General, including information on coal fields. Also includes statistics on population, marriage, homes and land, wages, employment, religion, births, deaths, livestock and agriculture, tax and interest rates, crimes committed and education.

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 208/101.

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

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