Nga Tohu

In 1840 more than 500 chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand’s founding document. Ngā Tohu, when complete, will contain a biographical sketch of each signatory.


Signing

SignatureSheetSigned asProbable nameTribeHapūSigning Occasion
16Sheet 8 — The Cook Strait (Henry Williams) SheetIngoTakutu IngoTe Āti AwaTe Matehou Port Nicholson 29 April 1840

Takutu Ingo signed the Cook Strait (Henry Williams) Treaty of Waitangi sheet on 29 April 1840, at Port Nicholson. Ingo was a son of Rangi-mahu and Uru-tahua and he had two brothers called Naho and Te-wai-nui.  He was a rangatira of the Te Matehou hapū of Te Āti Awa.

In 1844, Ingo signed a release of Enclosure No.6 in Pipitea to the New Zealand Company. In 1847 he signed the McCleverty’s Deed for the Pipitea Block ‘for themselves on behalf of Managatuka and Tepene his son’. [1]

Ingo attended a banquet at the residence of Dr. Fitzgerald in celebration of the arrival of a portrait of the Queen for the Colonial Hospital.

He was also listed, in 1888, as entitled to participate in the Tenths Wellington District.


[1] Maori Deeds of Land Purchases in the North Island of New Zealand: Volume Two (NZETC)


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