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313:(nowadays Russell). This was the first of a long chain of trading ventures. He purchased the land with goods, including six muskets, many casks of gunpowder and hundreds of musket balls and flints. Here he built up a flourishing trading station. He built his home on an elevated site above the trading station. He was "one of the first to exploit the
19:(23 May 1799 – 16 July 1857) was a sailor and a merchant trader who visited New Zealand for the first time when he was twenty, and lived there from 1824 till his death. He married Elizabeth Gilbert Puckey – who had the first piano brought to New Zealand in 1827. They had twelve children. Among them were "famous New Zealanders" like
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forces and became famous in late 1863 for entering into discussions with the rebels during the Battle of Orakau under a flag of truce. The government forces were aware that a number of women and children were in the stronghold and Mair pleaded with the rebels to let them out but they refused and shot
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began in the Bay of
Islands, that Gilbert Mair asked the governor to send a vessel to take all settlers to Auckland. Mair "only had three peaceful years in his new home in Whangārei, when he and his family were driven out by hostile natives, going to Auckland for some months, then back to the Bay in
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laid the keel for the vessel in 1824. He needed a ship to provision the mission stations and to visit the more remote areas of New
Zealand to bring the Gospel. When Gilbert Mair visited New Zealand for the third time, Williams asked him to assist in building the ship. When the
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in the Bay of
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introduced the first horses to New
Zealand, from Sydney; Gilbert Mair "bought the next lot from a shipment to Kororareka from Valparaíso. He sold one horse which was sent to the East Coast, and the others he took to Whangārei".
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Mair died at "Deveron", Whangārei, in 1857. He was buried on his own property. Many years later his sons removed his remains to the graveyard round the Church, where now only members of the Mair family are laid to rest".
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Mair was "involved in representations to the
British government to have New Zealand declared a British colony, and in the formation of the Kororareka Association, a controversial attempt at settler self-rule".
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Hongi Hika died. He had provided protection to the missionary community, and the time following his death was of considerable anxiety for the settlers.
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had arrived on a visit and over the following weeks he and Henry
Williams attempted to negotiate a settlement in which Kororāreka would be ceded by
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was wrecked, Gilbert Mair purchased land from the natives, built his home at Wahapu and carried on the business of merchant and trader.
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in 1820. At this occasion he visited New
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as compensation for Hengi's death, which was accepted by those engaged in the fighting. In 1837
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Caroline Elizabeth, the first born in 1828; she died in 1917
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of Sydney, who consecrated the Church at Russell in 1842;
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persuaded the warriors to stop the fighting. The Reverend
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In that same year of settling at Te Wahapu, the so-called
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Lavinia Laura, the last born in 1852; she died in 1936
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