Copy of communication to the Chief Magistrate of the Pitcairn Islanders resident at Norfolk Island, by direction of the Governor General, signed by Stephen G. Fremantle, Captain of H.M.S. Juno, Norfolk Island, concerning the cession of Norfolk Island to the Pitcairn Islanders, 25 June 1856

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25 June 1856

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1 folder of textual material - photocopy

Original held by the Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland, 1963 and acquired shortly before that date with a number of papers relating to Bishop Selwyn and the Norfolk Island mission which had been held by the Auckland diocese presumably for the past 100 years.

Compiled from the Manuscripts MLDOCs as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011

References to this document in published works are:

The Mutineers of the Bounty and their descendants in Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands, by Lady Belcher, London, 1870, p. 344

Settlement of the Pitcairn Islanders on Norfolk Island by F. M. Bladen (R.A.H.S. Journal II, pt. 1, 1906, p.11)

Outline of the story of Norfolk Island and Pitcairn's Island, 1788-1857, by C. H. Currey (R.A.H.S. Journal 44, pt. 6, 1958, pp. 360-1)

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