Harriet (Ship : -1834)

Date: 1829-1845

By: Hamilton, Douglas, active 1986

Reference: MS-Papers-11000

Description: Letters from a number of prominent early settlers and missionaries, with envelope Letters appear to have been collected for their postmarks. On each letter there is a note re the handstamp Quantity: 1 folder(s) (13 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies)

Date: 1835-1893

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-077

Description: Includes a preface and translation in S P Smith's hand with a note: `A large part of this has been embodied in "Hist. and Trad. of Taranaki Coast"'. There is also a covering note signed by W H S (W H Skinner) on the provenance of the ms with a genealogy of Teira Whatakore attached. Also includes letter from T M Hocken to Smith, Dunedin 1 Jun 1893, forwarding books and precis of copies or extracts of Colonial Office material, Sep 1835, on the `Alligator' and J Guard affair. The manuscript gives a biographical account of Wiremu Kingi Matakatea, with whakapapa, with much information about his role in conflicts between Taranaki and other iwi, and between Taranaki and the Government in the first Taranaki campaign (1860) in the New Zealand wars; the document also discusses the shipwreck `Harriet' and the treatment received by the survivors; there are also translations of the material. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 30 Aug-13 Nov 1834

By: Gunton, Henry, -1844

Reference: MS-Papers-0960

Description: A day by day account by Gunton of the expedition in HMS `Alligator' to rescue the survivors of the wreck of the `Harriet' who had been held to ransom by a Taranaki tribe. Gunton gives a very detailed description of Maori manners and customs, fortifications and pa. Includes summary of Gunton family. Source of title - Supplied Gunton, Lieutenant of the 50th Regiment, was aboard the `Alligator' on the expedition to rescue survivors of the wreck of the `Harriet' Quantity: 1 folder(s) (27 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript (photocopy)

Date: 22 Aug-8 Oct 1834

By: Clarke, (Lieutenant), active 1834

Reference: qMS-0459

Description: Clarke, a lieutenant of the Royal Marines, was a member of HMS Alligator's crew Quantity: 1 volume(s) (16 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (photoprint) (33 cm; blue pam case)

Date: 1834, 1838 [ca 1920]

From: McArthur & Company Ltd: Smoke and water damaged manuscripts and printed items

Reference: 84-251-2/04

Description: Accounts of the wreck of the ship Harriet off Taranaki coast, and the Jean Bart off the Chatham Islands 1838. Includes newspaper extracts recalling the Harriet wreck. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Possibly George Conrad Petersen collection.

Date: 1994

By: Davies, George Neville, 1921-2010

Reference: MSY-3842

Description: `Not beyond Redemption' by George Davies is a biography of Captain John Guard describing his early life in London, time in Newgate prison, work as a convict transportee, sealer, sea-captain and whaler based at Kakapo Bay in Port Underwood working between New Zealand and Sydney. John and Betty Guard and their two children were onboard the Harriet when it was wrecked off the Taranaki coast in 1834 and the biography details the subsequent experiences of the Guard family and the role the Alligator played in this incident, finishing with the subsequent farming career of John Guard at Kakapo Bay. The biography contains photographs and copies of illustrations of people and places mentioned. Source of title - title page Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and photographs (some photocopies)

Date: [1985]

From: Chisholm, Jocelyn Bell, 1928-2010 : Papers

Reference: 2004-319-09

Description: Notes relating to the `Harriet' Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [between 1866 and 1880s]

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

Reference: 10x8-2094-G

Description: Copy negative taken by William Henry Whitmore Davis. Source of descriptive information - Negative register. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 10x8 inches