University of Otago Library Statement by Missionaries at Bay of Islands, 30 September 1819 John King Author Reverend Thomas Kendall Author Charles Gordon Author William Carlisle Author Foxhound The ship that sent the letter text Letter Bay of Islands, New Zealand 30 September 1819 30 March 1819 30 September 1819 27 October 1819 8 November 1819 25 November 1819 Notes about where the letter was created: Bay of Islands, New Zealand eng text/html 322 x 201 mm 1 leaves 1 pages reformatted digital Hocken Collections' Title: Statement by Missionaries at Bay of Islands Annotations: Acknowledged to Samuel Marsden; Samuel Marsden (additional signature and note) Bay Of Islands -35.17886,174.169586 March Church Missionary Society Land settlement Settlement Planning Plans Swine Hogs Pork Pork Potatoes Potatoes Indian New Zealand -41.244772,174.675751 Carlisle Gordon Kendall Marsden Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_145 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_145_001 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_145_002 MS_0056_145 Trimble 145 CMS Number 162 The manuscript images, transcripts and metadata displayed on the Marsden Online Archive site are governed by a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 New Zealand (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 NZ) copyright agreement (available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/nz/). 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University of Otago Library 2015-06-11T09:43:25+12:00 machine generated eng Statement by Missionaries at Bay of Islands, 30 September 1819 John King and Reverend Thomas Kendall and Charles Gordon and William Carlisle University of Otago Library Digitised from the Hocken Library Collection Number MS-0056/145 Trimble 145 CMS Number 162 Digitised by the Marsden Online Archive Library of Congress Subject Headings Letter Maori Subject Headings 30 September 1819 Bay of Islands, New Zealand Foxhound 27 October 1819 8 November 1819 British English Land settlement Planning Swine Pork Potatoes Bay of islands March Church missionary society Settlement Plans Hogs Pork Potatoes Indian New zealand Carlisle Gordon Kendall Marsden Bay of Islands March 30—1819 We the undersigned Missionary Settlers in the service of the Honorable the Church Missionary Society actuated by a desire to promote the general comfort and prosperity of this Settlement do hereby promise and agree. That from and after the date hereof we will not as individuals enter into any plans of private commerce nor at any time dispose of to Captains of Ships or any other persons either by way of presents or barter any Hogs, Pork, Potatoes or Indian Corn except for the benefit and by the consent of the whole body of Settlers and at such a time as the affairs of the Settlement will admit, and that we will in such cases each contribute according to the number of persons in our respective families a proportionate quantity of the article so disposed of, in order that each family may be made partaker of a proportionate share of the benefit. That provided any individual settler should procure from the Natives at his own private expence; or by means of his own industry any of the abovementioned articles and be willing to part with them to the body of settlers, and the Body of Settlers agree to receive them; then each settler shall bear a proportionate part of the prime cost, or contribute a proportionate part of the value at New Zealand. Witness our hands Wm Carlisle Chas Gordon Thos Kendall John King I have taken a Copy of this Agreement sent to me and have forwarded the original. Hall’s name is not to it. He is a very stubborn Ass and never will be properly broke in to the yoke Saml Marsden Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0056/145 37MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 a32cdf935f0f6cb62d9df7f257178ba7 ACEMC 2868 4518 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0056/145 201 mm 322 mm 2014:04:03 08:50:43.65 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit digital still camera Canon Canon EOS 6D 11.0 1 Manual 0220 1 11.0 6.9 1.4 Multi-segment tungsten flash did not fire 50.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 61.4 mm) 0 Subject is illuminated from the front side. Auto Focus Used Normal Digitised as part of the Mining Marsden Project in 2013/2014 8, 8, 8 integer 3 2014:06:04 16:13:06 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit Processing actions undertaken to: prepare the image for online digital use and maintain the integrity of the image. Adobe Photoshop CS6 Windows 7 Cropped item to remove excess border and straightened the image. 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