ANNA WATSON - 1840
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ANNA WATSON,  ?  tons,  sailed from Bay of Islands (Auckland) on 1840, 
arrived in Auckland, Aug 1840.
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The Anna Watson arrived from the Bay of Islands, with Captain William Hobson's, Governor, 
staff.  The Captain was too ill to travel at the time.  

He and his staff were looking for harbour where they might build a capital for New Zealand.  
Hobson, a man with many years sailing experience, felt the Waitemata would make a good harbour, 
whereas Felton Mathew, the surveyor-general, preferred Tamaki.

Surveyors sent a small vessel around the Waitemata harbour drawing up their plans for a new 
city.  An old woman from the Ngati Whatua watched as the vessel went slowly around Orakei.  
The Ngati Whatua were at their plantation in Onehunga.

When Hobson did arrive, he named Remuera, Mt Hobson.  The only problem being he did not 
purchase the land from the Ngati Whatua.  


John Logan Campbell and William Brown had settled on Browns Island and met Chief Te Kanini, 
where they learnt that the Waitemata had been sold. A few days later the deputy-governor 
landed on the Browns Island following orders that he was to place a flag on there.  It 
turned out to be a pleasant picnic and a flag was hoisted on an oar once the deputy-governor 
learnt that Campbell-Brown had purchased the island, and that they were not uncivilised 
Pakeha-Maoris. Curious, and not wanting to miss any news of the outside world, John 
Campbell, and William Brown paddled by canoe from Browns Island 'up to town' (a tent city 
with raupo huts). 

Mrs Sarah Mathew, the dour wife of Felton Matthew dismissed the future 'Father of Auckland', 
John Campbell and his business partner, William Brown, writing:

  '" Such specimens of settler, many degrees below those of New South Wales in apparent 
     respectability!  Truly, the early settlers in a new colony most extraordinary beings, 
     somewhat of the Kentucky style, half-horse, half-alligator, with a touch of the 
     earthquake.  They were not welcomed with much cordiality, so they soon pushed off again."'


Hitching a tent in the middle of Auckland's squatter camp, the Brown-Campbell store was open 
for business(!)  Within three years they were to purchase the Bolina and trade with Sydney 
and England.  Mr and Mrs Felton Mathew were to return home.  


William Hobson died of accidental poisoning in September 1842, aged 49.  Hobson St was named 
after this first governor who was buried at Symonds St cemetery.  

William Cornwallis Symonds, police magistrate, was a popular and kind man who drowned while 
on an errand for Mrs Haskin, a passenger from the 'Brilliant'.  Mrs Haskin feigned illness 
and Symonds went to the 'Brilliant' to fetch her medicine, a storm blew up and he and two 
others drowned - the first europeans to drown in Auckland harbour.  Symonds St and Cornwallis 
St, Auckland were named after him.  His brother, Capt John Jermyn Symonds, came to NZ on the
the seventh Fencible ship, Berhampore (16 Jun 1849)



FORMAT
last name, first name, profession

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Capt , Master;


PASSENGERS            PROFESSION

Beck, Peter           boatman
Burns, John           boatman
Carlos, Michael       boatman
Collins, David        carpenter
Condon, Richard       carpenter
Dalcombie, Manuel     boatman
Dew, John             carpenter
Gamble, James         labourer
Hamilton, Francis     labourer
Harkin, William       labourer
Harris, Alexander     sawyer
Hill, Charles         blacksmith
Johnson, Dr John      surgeon
Kearney, Thomas       blacksmith
Kendall, William      groom
Mason, William        superintendant of works
Mathew, Felton        surveyor-general
Mills, Samuel         carpenter
Motion, William       carpenter
McGee, James          labourer
McQuoid, John         labourer
McNaughton, Donald    mason
McRichie, James       boatman
O'Neill, Charles      carpenter
Rayner, Henry         bricklayer
Raynor, Henry         boatman
Robertson, John       sawyer
Rough, David          harbour master
Sharkey, Patrick      mason
Smith, Isaac          bricklayer
Swanson, John         carpenter
Symonds, William C    police magistrate
Williams, Edward M    interpreter

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RESOURCES: 
©McCarthy, Darry., (1978) "The First Fleet of Auckland." Pacer Printing Co 
Ltd., Box 13197, Onehunga, Auckland.

©Campbell, Sir John Logan., (1881)., "Poenamu." Williams & Norgate., 
14 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London; and 20 Sth Frederick St, 
Edinburgh.

Auckland Central City Library (1998): 44-46 Lorne St, Auckland City, New 
Zealand, or PO Box 4638, Auckland 1001, New Zealand.




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                                6 November 1998
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