Smales, John Bumby, 1841-1869

Date: 1855

By: Smales, John Bumby, 1841-1869

Reference: MapColl-832.14gbbd/[ca.1855]/Acc.23678

Description: Plan of Wesleyan Mission Station showing church, missionary house, cottage, store, kitchen building, large garden, lands, boathouse, the road to the church, stream, swamp, ditches, banks, fences, post and rail fence between station and the harbour. Reference to fences is colour-coded indicating ditches, banks, sticks, and post and rail. Established by Reverend Gideon Smales in 1844 and originally called Beechamdale. See: 'Some notes on the Wesleyan mission at Aotea' by C.G. Hunt, [1965] Signed JBS. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, scale [ca.1:2 000], 39 x 30 cm on sheet 57 x 45 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS Papers 1018.

From: Smales, Gideon 1817-1894 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1018-1

Description: :Letters from Revs J and C Wesley, 1786; instruction of the Committee of the Wesleyan Missionary Society to the Captain of the missionary ship Triton, Bristol, 4 Sep 1839; facsimile of the Proclamations by Governor Hobson (supplement to the New Zealand herald, 1890); broadsheet re Wesleyan Branch Society meeting at Stokesley to be addressed by Rev Robert Young, May 1831; ms map of mission station at Aotea (photocopy); list of subscriptions for the erection of a Wesleyan Chapel, Aotea, undated; newspaper clipping re unveiling of memorials at Raglan, and Aotea in honour of Rev James Wallis and Rev Gideon Smales, 4 May 1957; memorial cards for Susannah Jane Smales 1876, Mary Anna Chadwick 1871, and John Bumby Smales 1869; 3 photographs Other - The original map of the Aotea Mission station is now held in the Cartographic collection Quantity: 1 folder(s).