University of Otago Library Agreement of settlers at Bay of Islands, 30 March 1819 John King Author Reverend Thomas Kendall Author Charles Gordon Author William Carlisle Author text Letter Bay of Islands, New Zealand 30 March 1819 28 September 1819 11 October 1819 25 November 1819 Notes about where the letter was created: Bay of Islands, New Zealand eng text/html 318 x 205 mm 1 leaves 1 pages reformatted digital Hocken Collections' Title: Agreement of settlers at Bay of Islands 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 Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_146 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_146_001 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_146_002 MS_0056_146 Trimble 146 CMS Number 163 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/). Please contact the Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand for more information. University of Otago Library 2015-06-11T13:52:43+12:00 machine generated eng 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 Library Collection Number MS-0056/146 Trimble 146 CMS Number 163 Digitised by the Marsden Online Archive 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 Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0056/146 39MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 e4ba93625f35d4f0a20eaabaed2af82f ACEMC 2994 4578 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0056/146 205 mm 318 mm 2014:04:03 10:07:16.35 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: 60.1 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 2014:04:08 12:01:37 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. 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/). Please contact the Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand for more information. Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. hocken@otago.ac.nz