Signing
Signature | Sheet | Signed as | Probable name | Tribe | Hapū | Signing Occasion |
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21 | Sheet 8 — The Cook Strait (Henry Williams) Sheet | Rawi | Aperahama Rawi | Ngāti Tama | Port Nicholson 29 April 1840 |
Rawi signed the Cook Strait (Henry Williams) sheet of the Treaty of Waitangi on 29 April 1840 at Port Nicholson, Wellington. This is probably Aperahama Rawi, who signed the Enclosure No. 9 ‘Release from the Kaiwarawara natives to the New Zealand Company’ in 1844. [1]
[1] ‘(Enclosure no. 9) – Release from the Kaiwarara natives to the New Zealand Company’, Maori Deeds of Old Private Land Purchases in New Zealand, From the Year 1815 to 1840, with Pre-Emptive and Other Claims, H. Hanson Turton
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