Boyd (Ship)

Date: 1814

By: Broughton, William, 1768-1821

Reference: MS-Papers-0943

Description: Describes the massacre of the crew and passengers of the ship `Boyd' at Whangaroa, 1809 and the rescue of his daughter by Captain Berry, 1812 Relationship complexity - Original and water-colour portrait held in National Library of Australia, Canberra (ANL:NK 382) In 1809 Elizabeth Broughton, aged two, and her mother were passengers on the General Boyd, sailing from New South Wales to England. The vessel called at Whangaroa Harbour in northern New Zealand where it was attacked by Maori, and most of the crew and passengers killed. Elizabeth was one of four survivors. She was rescued after three weeks. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 leaf). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Date: 1908

By: Wright, Walter, 1866-1933; Auckland weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: A-078-011

Description: View of the Boyd on fire in Whangaroa Harbour with a large number of Maori in canoes in the foreground Probably published in Weekly News Copy of an original oil painting in Auckland Art Gallery. The date 1908 for the publication of this image is suggested by a story on the verso showing Sydney L. Thompson's painting 'A pioneer's story' which was exhibited at the Auckland Society of Arts annual exhibition in 1908 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 265 x 380 mm

Date: 1809 - 1968 - 1969

By: Wright, Walter, 1866-1933; Murray-Oliver, Anthony Audrey St. Clair Murray, 1915-1986

Reference: C-087-011

Description: "This reproduction from a painting by Walter Wright, in the Auckland Art Gallery, depicts the scene of Whangaroa Harbour after the massacre of the ship's company". From an oil painting held by Auckland City Art Gallery. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - "The burning of the Boyd" The Boyd massacre took place in August, 1809, almost 160 years ago. This reproduction from a painting by Walter Wright, in the Auckland Art Gallery, depicts the scene on Whangaroa Harbour after the massacre of the ship's company by the Maoris. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured, 353 x 515 mm, on sheet 384 x 557 mm.

Date: 1802-1897, 1934

By: Marsden family

Reference: MS-Papers-0453

Description: Correspondence of Samuel Marsden regarding his service in New South Wales, and establishment of Church Missionary Society mission in New Zealand, with comments on "Boyd massacre", Elizabeth affair, and Baron de Thierry; including letters to Hongi Hika. Also correspondence of Mary Betts, Jane and Thomas Marsden, and letters relating to J B Marsden's Memoirs ... of Samuel Marsden (London, [1858?]) Quantity: 13 folder(s). 0.13 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (some photocopies), typed transcripts, and printed matter Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: [ca 1800s-1900s]

From: General Assembly Library : Miscellaneous manuscripts

Reference: MS-Papers-10077-2a

Description: Includes letter-diary kept by Charles Moore Igglesden during his voyage to Melbourne on board Mermaid (1855-1856) in which he describes his impressions to his friend William Watkins, and a letter written from Wellington (1857); notes regarding Boyd affray; letters regarding journalist S Saunders (circa 1920s); a shipboard letter written by John Chilton Lambton Carter on board True Briton (1852); a letter from Hard. Hyde Fenton (1850); letters from Harold Hamilton to Sir Apirana Ngata (1937); supplements from the December 1837 and April 1838 issues of `The Saturday magazine'; `The penny magazine of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge' (30 September-31 October 1838); letters and notes from Sinclair Carruthers regarding advertising (1942-1947); notes regarding Arthur Simms and Ernest Rutherford by F H de la Mare; and a list of arrivals on Aurora, Oriental, Tory and Success. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts, handwritten manuscripts, printed material, and a copy film negative Transfers: Photographs depicting human remains, the skull of Te Rongo, have been removed from the folder for reasons of cultural sensitivity. These are at Library reference MS-Papers-10077-2b.

Date: 1809-1811

By: MacArthur, John - 1764-1834

Reference: MS-Papers-0725

Description: Letter from McArthur written from Clapham to his wife, Elizabeth, and two letters from G Blaxcell of Sydney, to McArthur, concerning the `Boyd' and its loss Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (21 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and mss (photocopies)

Date: 1820

By: Fairfowl, George, -1836

Reference: MapColl-832.11aj/1820/Acc.22946

Description: Shows area of the wreck of the ship Boyd Other Titles - Whangaroa Harbour... Extended Title - From a log of the proceedings of HMS Dromedary kept by Percival Baskerville. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic print, 21 x 14 cm. Scale [ca 1:36 000] Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - P Baskervilles log of the Dromedary voyage to New Zealand = MSY-2983.

Date: 1804-1824

From: New South Wales. Colonial Secretary : Records

Reference: Micro-Ms-0956-20

Description: Collected papers on a number of topics, mainly of Australian interest, but including documents relating to the massacre in New Zealand of the crew of the `Boyd' and the rescue of the survivors by the `City of Edinburgh', 1809. Also, letter by the Governor to the chiefs in the Marquesas re cruelty to natives by John Martin, master of the `Queen Charlotte'. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1810 - 1896

By: Hayward, Edward Beauvais, 1860-1917

Reference: G-330

Description: A burning sailing ship in the centre background, with a group of survivors in the foreground in a small rowing boat watching the ship. Another boat with survivors is closer to the ship. It is a night scene and the surroundings are lit by the fire on board Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on board, 710 x 970 mm.

Date: 1934

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to ships and shipping companies, mainly on voyages to and around New Zealand. 1934]

Reference: Eph-A-SHIP-1934-01-01

Description: Partly text, annotated by a previous owner, showing features of his/her trip. At the bottom is a photograph of "the luxuriously-appointed motor liner, Wanganella". Annotation mentions seeing "bits of the `Boyd' in old Settlers' Museum". Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on page of booklet.. Physical Description: Photolithograph on page, 228 x 144 mm.

Date: 1809 - 1956 - 1958

From: Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s].

Reference: B-140-019

Description: Six-panelled account of the capture and blowing up of the Boyd in Whangaroa Harbour in 1809 in retaliation for its captain's whipping of a local chief known as George These illustrations were reproduced in New Zealand newspapers during the late 1940s and 1950s. The newspapers included The Evening Post, Auckland Star, Christchurch Star Sun, Taranaki Herald, Southern Cross, Students' Digest, Greymouth Evening Star, Evening Star (Sports) Dunedin, and the Southland Daily News. In 1953, 48 of them were collected and published as a booklet called 'It happened in New Zealand' by Ross Gore. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Jenny Gibbs, of Auckland, in 1995.

Date: 1803-1884

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1962

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: [1830], 1946

By: Berry, Alexander, 1781-1873

Reference: qMS-0163

Description: Title continues: `...and massacre of the Captain and crew, by the natives of Wangaroa New Zealand' also, `Settlement of Shoalhaven, NSW, 1822'. Berry describes the events surrounding the `Boyd' some twenty years later. Pasted at the end is a clipping from the `Rotorua Morning Post' (13 Mar 1946) `The Massacre of the Boyd' by George Mackaness. Source of title - Transcribed A note at the end reads: `The above statement is by Alexander Berry - Super Cargo of the ship `City of Edinburgh' (Simon Pattison, Master). The allusion to Dillon's narrative (pub 1829) and the `Sydney Library' (established 1826) shows that Berry must have written this supplementary statement some years, probably 20, after the events described Quantity: 1 volume(s) (32 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and printed matter (32 cm, ½ dk green morocco, green linen)

Date: 1810

By: Macquarie, Lachlan, 1762-1824

Reference: MS-Papers-0716

Description: Comprises letter from Lord & Williams, A Riley and T Kent, applying for permission to establish a settlement for obtaining flax in the North Island of New Zealand; for the granting of a Commission of Peace to T Kent, against sailors marauding the establishment. One page from Macquarie's diary, 20 Apr-12 May 1810, recording treatment of ex-governor Bligh and the arrival of the brig `Perseverance' bringing confirmation of the loss of the `Boyd'. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (6 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies)

Date: 1808-1811, 1852-1883

From: Church Missionary Society : Archives relating to the Australian and New Zealand Missions

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-04-27

Description: Comprises some 17 letters 1809-1811, to the Society from Samuel Marsden, William Hall, and John King, describing each other, conditions in New Zealand, the `Boyd' affair, and other missionaries; and two outward letterbooks Jan 1852-Sep 1883. The outward letterbooks are to individual missionaries ca 1852-1883. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Processing information: Record updated on 2 March 2023 as paper inventory had incorrectly associated "letters to E.B. Clarke" with James Climo, 1822-1911. Replaced with correct name record for Edward Blomfield Clarke, 1831-1900.

Date: [ca 1787-1923]

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2047

Description: Papers of Thomas Spring-Rice (MS 13610 continued from previous reel). photocopies of Tasmanian reports on W S O'Brien, T F Meagher, p O'Donoghue, T B McManus, J Martin, K O'Doherty and J Mitchel, 1849-1854. The reports give name, offence, date of arrival, trade, detailed physical description, crime and sentence. Papers of Lieut I Rolleston. Account book, 1862, 1866. MS 13798. Correspondence concerning allegation by Col H Ware that due to neglect by Lieut Rolleston of 50th regiment some transport carts broke down in operations north of Waitara River, New Zealand, Dec 1864. Papers of Earls of Inchiquin. MS 14498. Journal of Lieut I Farqueson on voyage round the world Aug 1806-Oct 1810. Includes entries relating to the massacre of the Boyd. Papers of John Redmond, Leader of Irish Parliamentary Party 1900-1918. MS 15186 - two letters from Sir Charles Gavan Duffy to F Longmore and R Byrne commending J Redmond's book on Australia, 1882. MS 15206 - 8 letters from Cardinal P Moran, J Moran and D O'Haran, 1902-1909. MS 15237 - Correspondence with C Parnell, 1882; H Mahon, 1882; Rev P Furlong, 1882. MS 15398 - W S O'Brien. `Never despair', poem by T F Meagher. MS 15742 - W S O'Brien (Brussells) to C Gavan Duffy, 1855. W S O'Brien to Barton, 1849. MS 15745 - C Gavan Duffy (Melbourne) to W F Vesey Fitzgerald, 1872 MS 15791 - 2 letters from M Davitt to Mrs Daly concerning her husband's injury and death of Davitt's daughter, Jul-Sep 1895 Papers of Thomas Orde, Chief Secretary for Ireland 1784-1787 - MS 15905 Gen W A Pitt to Orde, 1787. Orders issued for guards to escort convicts from Cork, Limerick and Tipperary. Selected papers of Jenico Preston (Lord Gormanston), Governor of Tasmania, 1893-1900. MS 15998 Selected papers of Austin Stack - MS 17083 Letters from W F O'Sullivan 1922 Papers of Joseph McGarrity - MS 17626 Report of reception to Archbishop D Mannix. Speeches by Monsignor Joseph F Mooney, Archbishop P Hayes, E de Valera and Archbishop Mannix, etc, 1920s. MS 17650 List of subscriptions in Australia and NZ, possibly to Irish Relief Fund, 1916-1918. MS 17801 10 letters from John and Mary Birmingham to their family 1870-1884. They refer to land selections in the Clarence and Richmond River District of NSW, timber cutting, etc. One letter mentions farming in Otago, NZ. MS 17829 7 letters from John S Casey to his family 1866-1869 written from Western Australia. They refer to funds raised in Australia to enable the fenian exiles to return to Ireland, treatment of aborigines, his injury and medical treatment, hopes of release, etc. Papers of Sir William Teeling - MS 17869 Letters from J C Hoey to Lord O'Hagan, 1871 (continued on Micro-MS-Coll-20-2048) Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: [between 1945-1988]

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

By: Wright, Walter, 1866-1933

Reference: WA-10075-G

Description: Copy negative taken by Whites Aviation Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 6 Nov 1823

Reference: MS-Papers-0983

Description: Letter in Maori, signed George, with translation, telling of his treatment on board the `Boyd' and of events preceding the massacre. Makes a plea for cessation of hostile feelings. The letter is in the hand of William White from the dictation by Te Ara (George). Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 1826 - 1836 - 1829

From: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, b 1800 :[Twelve engravings from Dumont d'Urville's "Voyage pittoresque autour du monde" (Paris, 1836)]

By: Boilly, Alphonse, 1801-1867

Reference: A-433-019

Description: Shows a group of Maori in a rowing boat in the right foreground. They have appropriated some European clothing and weapons. Other Maori figures are seated on the near shore where three figures in European dress are lying. A waka is halfway between the foreground shore and a sailing ship in the middle distance. The incident took place in Whangaroa Harbour Other Titles - Capture of the ship Boyd by the New Zealanders Other Titles - Volume 2, plate 49 Other Titles - Alphonse Boilly Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on page 187 x 279 mm.

Date: [ca 1840-1954]

By: Williams, Charles Skinner, active 1954

Reference: PA1-o-726

Description: Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-5166 : Williams, Charles Skinner, fl 1954 : A Collection of legends and tales of Whangaroa.