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28 January 1840
W.B. Moores buys 300 acres of land at Te Toro on the Waiuku River, where the one-legged trader John Bushell establishes a trading store. After Bushell's death in 1844 the store lapses.
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6 February 1840
The Treaty of Waitangi is signed in the Bay of Islands. Copies of the Treaty are later circulated for signing by other chiefs throughout New Zealand. Meetings held at various places include those on the shores of the Waitemata (4 March 1840), on the Manukau Peninsula (20 March 1840), at the Waikato Heads (11 April 1840), and perhaps also at Karaka Bay in the Tamaki River (9 July 1840).
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Map: Maori tribal lands in the Manukau area, 1840.

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26 February 1840
Felton Mathew, the colony's newly appointed Surveyor-General, visits Fairburn's mission station at Maraetai. Mathew has accompanied Lieutenant-Governor William Hobson on the HMS Herald on an expedition to gather more signatures for the Treaty of Waitangi and to investigate the Waitemata as a site for settlement (see also 4 March 1840).
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4 March 1840
On this day, sixteen chiefs of the Ngati Paoa, Ngati Maru, Ngati Tamatera and - perhaps - Ngai Tai tribes sign a copy of the Treaty of Waitangi, witnessed by Captain Joseph Nias and the missionaries Henry Williams and William Fairburn. The exact location of the meeting is unknown, but is somewhere on the southern shores of the Waitemata or along the Tamaki river (see also 9 July 1840).
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20 March 1840
A treaty meeting is organised by Captain W.C. Symonds and James Hamlin at Orua Bay on the Manukau Peninsula. The Waikato chiefs present - who may include Te Wherowhero - refuse to sign the Treaty of Waitangi, but three Ngati Whatua chiefs do so, including Apihai Te Kawau. Symonds then proceeds southwards to the Waikato Heads (see also 11 April 1840).
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5 April 1840
The missionary William Fairburn conveys a third of his vast purchase of land to the Church Missionary Society, although this transaction is never in fact put into effect (see also 30 November 1841).
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11 April 1840
About this time, a total of 32 Waikato chiefs, including some Ngati Tipa and Ngati Te Ata chiefs, sign a copy of the Treaty of Waitangi at the Reverend Robert Maunsell's mission station at the Waikato Heads. (Alternatively, Maunsell may have gathered the signatures over several days.) A further seven Ngati Te Ata chiefs sign at another meeting either at the same place or on the Manukau on 26 April 1840 (see also 9 July 1840).
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27 April 1840
Surveyor-General Felton Mathew returns to the Waitemata on board the cutter Ranger. While anchored off Waiteramoa (Hobson Bay) the ship is visited by four European adventurers, one of whom is John Logan Campbell (see 3 May 1840). Mathew remains in the area for several weeks, and with his wife twice visits the Fairburns at Maraetai. Mathew later recommends the western shores of the Tamaki River as the most suitable site for a new capital.
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3 May 1840
John Logan Campbell, who in later years becomes a wealthy merchant, visits the Ngati Whatua chiefs Te Kawau and Te Hira at Mangere in an unsuccessful attempt to buy land at Orakei. On 22 May, however, he and his partner William Brown buy the island of Motukorea (Brown's Island) from Ngati Tamatera (see also 17 August 1840).
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5 July 1840
On his second expedition to the Waitemata, Lieutenant-Governor Hobson attends divine service at the Maraetai mission. On the following day he explores the Tamaki River, where a few days later he meets local chiefs for a treaty signing ceremony (9 July 1840). On his return to the Bay of Islands Hobson rejects the Tamaki as a suitable site for settlement, and despatches another party to the Waitemata.
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9 July 1840
Governor William Hobson and his entourage meet with local chiefs on the shores of the Tamaki River for a treaty signing ceremony. The exact location is unknown, but is generally presumed to be Karaka Bay. Seven chiefs sign the Treaty, including the Ngai Tai chief Tara Te Irirangi.
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August (?) 1840
Some time during the winter of 1840 Apihai Te Kawau moves with most of his followers from Mangere and Onehunga to Okahu. Some members of the Te Uringutu hapu remain at Mangere.
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17 August 1840
John Logan Campbell visits the Ngai Tai settlement at Umupuia where he meets the Ngai Tai chief Tara te Irirangi and hires workers to build a house on Motukorea. He sleeps at Umupuia overnight and attends a church service in the great carved whare nui known as Te Umupuia. The settlement at Umupuia remains the centre of Ngai Tai life in the area until at least the 1920s (see also 1 March 1983).
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18 September 1840
Auckland is proclaimed as the site of a Crown settlement. A prospective deed of sale is signed: the British flag is raised at Point Britomart: there is a twenty-one gun salute.
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20 October 1840
The final deed of sale for the purchase of the site of Auckland is signed with Apihai Te Kawau and other Ngati Whatua chiefs. The triangular 3000-acre block of land stretches from Opou (Cox's Creek) around the shoreline to Mataharehare (in Hobson Bay) and south to Maungawhau (Mt Eden).
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26 February 1841
Ensign Abel Dottin William Best, assigned to New Zealand with the 80th Regiment, arrives in Auckland. On 8 March he makes an excursion to the shores of the Manukau Harbour. On 31 March he sets off on an expedition with the naturalist Ernest Dieffenbach, the pair travelling southward via Onehunga, the Manukau Peninsula, and the Awaroa portage (see also 2 July 1842).
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13 March 1841
Lieutenant-Governor William Hobson lands at Auckland, which becomes the capital of the new colony.
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29 March 1841
Lady Jane Franklin, wife of the Arctic explorer, Sir John Franklin, Governor of Van Dieman's Land, travels via the Manukau Harbour and Awaroa portage to attend a Church Missionary Society schools' examination meeting at Robert Maunsell's Waikato Heads [Port Waikato] mission station. She returns to Auckland on 8 April.
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28 May 1841
Hauraki chiefs (mostly Ngati Paoa) sell the 6000-acre Kohimarama block to the Crown. This includes land on the western side of the Tamaki River as far south as the Panmure basin.
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9 June 1841
The New Zealand Land Claims Ordinance provides for the establishment of a commission to consider all claims relating to the purchase of land prior to 14 January 1840. (The Crown claims the right of pre-emptive purchase of land in New Zealand, that is, the sole right to purchase land from Maori.) The commission, which becomes known as the Old Land Claims Commission, considers amongst other claims the Fairburn Claim (see 14 July 1842); also a number of lesser claims relating to lands in South Auckland, including those by the Church Missionary Society, the speculator Alexander Dalziel (see also 21 October 1843), and the missionary James Hamlin (see also 22 October 1844). Some claims take decades to resolve (see also 16 August 1856).
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