Agreement of settlers at Bay of Islands, 30 March 1819
John King and Reverend Thomas Kendall and Charles Gordon and William Carlisle
University of Otago Library
Digitised from the Hocken LibraryCollection Number MS-0056/146
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
Letter
Maori Subject Headings
30 March 1819
Bay of Islands, New Zealand
28 September 1819
11 October 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
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