#Ngapuhi hapu map series

Lot 31, on the point itself, was purchased by the New Zealand Company in 1844, but was sold back to the Crown in 1847. Lot 27 was sold in December 1843, but Lots 28 to 30 were not sold until July 1851. The east and southerly parts of the point were divided into Lots 27 to 31. Maruroa died in 1840 at Te Onewa and after the Mahurangi Purchase, Pakeha surveyed Te Onewa, or from 1841 Point Rough. Simultaneously Ngati Whatua also re-asserted control of the Auckland isthmus. Te Kawerau's Maruroa returned to nearby Kauri Point around 1835, while Ngai Tai returned to Te Onewa around the same time. The pa protected local kainga in the vicinity, and inhabitants relied on local shellfish, roots and berries, kumara cultivation and nearby fishing grounds especially shark. Okawau was the 'home of the shag' at the southern most tip of the point and Te Onewa was the name of a fortification ditch, or 'divided earth', on the southern most part of the point. The point itself was Totaratahi, or one totara tree, while the small beach to the west was Onepoto. Prior to 1841 Maori knew the Northcote Point area as Te Onewa.

There were further settlements into the early 1850's for particular parcels of land north of the North Shore, and included Te Kawerau, Ngati Whatua, Ngati Paoa and Ngai Tai (specifically Rangitoto). On 3 January 1842 four other Ngati Whatua chiefs settled. On Patuone of Ngapuhi, whose wife was Ngati Paoa, signed a separate settlement, while on 29 June 1841 Na Tautari and five others began the settlement of Ngati Whatua interests in the area. This included Ngati Tamatera, Ngati Whanaunga, Ngati Maru and Ngati Paoa. On 13 April 1841 22 Maori signed on behalf of the Marutuahu or Hauraki Confederacy. This was due to the number of interested parties involved.

#Ngapuhi hapu map series

The Crown's purchase from Maori of land, which included the North Shore, was in fact a series of purchases from 1841 to 1854. The Ngai Tai and Te Kawerau remnants then abandoned the district, and victorious Ngapuhi returned to the north leaving the area abandoned. All these tribes linked together to unsuccessfully combat Ngapuhi in September 1821. Rahopara at Castor Bay was a Te Kawerau pa. Ngai Tai and Te Kawerau fought many battles with Ngati Whatua, and from the middle of the seventeenth century also with Ngati Paoa from Waiheke and Hauraki. The northern shore of the Waitemata, as with Tamaki-Makau-Rau, was the scene of much inters tribal conflict.

Lesser known is the different Maori kainga on what is now the North Shore. Further to the northwest, there was also Ngati Whatua O Kaipara. Ngati Whatua O Orakei and Te Wherowhero's (from 1858 known as King Potatau) Maori Fencibles at Mangere are two relatively well-known Maori communities in nineteenth century Auckland.