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1840 to 1849 28 January 1840 W.B. Moores buys 300 acres of land at Te Toro, where the one-legged trader John Bushell establishes a store. (Bushell passs away in 1844.) 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. 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. 4 March 1840 Accompanied by the missionaries Henry Williams and William Fairburn, seventeen chiefs of the Ngati Paoa, Ngati Maru and Ngai Tai sign a copy of the Treaty of Waitangi at a meeting held on the shores of the Tamaki River. 20 March 1840 A Treaty meeting is organised by Captain W.C. Symonds and James Hamlin on the Manukau Peninsula. The Waikato chiefs present refuse to sign (perhaps including Te Wherowhero), but three Ngati Whatua chiefs do so (including Te Kawau). On 11 April, 32 Waikato chiefs sign the Treaty at a mission gathering at the Waikato Heads; and on 26 April seven more chiefs sign at another gathering on the Manukau Peninsula. 1 April 1840 Fairburn conveys a third of his purchase to the Church Missionary Society, although this transaction is never in fact put into effect. 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. Mathew remains in the area for several weeks, and with his wife and twice visits the Fairburns at Maraetai. Mathew recommends the western shores of the Tamaki River as the most suitable site for a new capital. 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 5 July 1840 On another expedition to the Waitemata, Lieutenant-Governor Hobson attends a service at the Maraetai mission. On the following day he explores the Tamaki River. On 7 July another seven chiefs sign the Treaty of Waitangi at a tribal assembly on the west banks of the river. 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. 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. September 1840 John Logan Campbell visited the﻿ Ngai Tai settlement at Umupaia ﻿in order to hire workers to build a house on Motukorea