Some time around 1843 William went to Wellington to sell potatoes..
William was an industrious man ,always looking for ways to make a dollar..times where tough back then,you had to do what you had to do earn money.
Johnny Jones ,Williams old employer would make trips from Otago to Wellington..I think it was one of these trips that William went north with Johnny to sell goods..
Family history says that William gave a bag of spuds for a wife..a maori women named Etahi.it is said that he found a tribe of maori starving and he gave the spuds for a wife...family oral history can be like a game of whispers..by the time you get to the end of the story ,the whole story is wrong..