New Zealand Company Original Correspondence, etc.

Description and record details

Reference	CO 208
Title	New Zealand Company Original Correspondence, etc.
Date	1837-1861
Description	This series contains original correspondence and entry books of the New Zealand Company which were handed over to the Colonial Office after the surrender of the company's charters in 1850. Also included are minutes, accounts, registers of emigrants and land transfers records.
Arrangement	These records are arranged in the following catagories: original correspondence, reference books to in-letters and to out-letters, minutes, accounts, and three subseries of miscellanea arranged under the headings local records, land, and persons.
Related material	for other correspondence relating to New Zealand see CO 209
Held by	The National Archives, Kew
Legal status	Public Record(s)
Language	English
Creator	New Zealand Company, 1839-1858
Physical description	309 volume(s)
Unpublished finding aids	For registers of original correspondence in this series see CO 326.
Administrative/ biographical background	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.
Copies information	Microfilm copies were created as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project (1948-1997). The microfilm images have been digitised and made available online by the National Library of Australia.

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