Travelled to Sydney from London on the Layton STWH
1839 along with, Flower RUSSELL, and James Anderson bought 3000 acres at Whangarei. MW
Title: Maori Deeds of Old Private Land Purchases in New Zealand, From the Year 1815 to 1840, with Pre-Emptive and Other Claims
Author: H. Hanson Turton
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Thomas Scott, Flower Russell, and James Anderson, Bay of Islands, Claimants.
3,000 (three thousand) acres, more or less, at Wangarei, about 75 miles south of the Bay of Islands. Bounded on the east by Otipo; running north to the Rua Rangi Hills and the Kai Wha; running south-east by the Wangarei River as far as a place called Wakarongo Tai; on the north and north-east by the range of hills from the Rua Rangi; on the west and north-west by a straight line across the land from Wakarongo Tai to the range of hills from the Rua Rangi. Alleged to have been purchased by claimants on the 23rd May, 1839, from the Native chiefs William Poke, Haia Tipene, and others. Consideration: £75 sterling. Nature of conveyance: Not stated.
In 1836 the brothers-in-law (Thomas Scott and Flower Russell) purchased from Pomare II for ten pounds, a plot below his pa
Other passengers on the ship the ?Nimrod? were shipwright James Hawkins, with his sister and mother. Thomas Stuart Scott and James Hawkins teamed up, and on the newly acquired beach front built the little schooner Trent (18tons)
The partnership of the two shipwrights Thomas Stuart Scott and James Hawkins ended on a most unhappy note. On the 20th January 1839, Clendon wrote to James Busby that James Hawkins Claimed Thomas Stuart Scott ?had murdered his wife?s Brother?. This remarkable accusation seems unfounded. Although Clendon interviewed both parties, there is no further references to the incident in the Resident?s papers STWH. Thomas Stewart Scott immigrated to Sydney to Hokianga in the Nimrod on 5 September 1835.
2 He was a shipbuilder, Northland in 1839.
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