Question: The person William Mein Smith worked as the Surveyor General for from 1840 to 1843 was born on what date?

Related documents: [0]  [DOC] William Mein Smith (1798 – 3 January 1869) was a key actor in the early settlement of New Zealand's capital city, Wellington. As the Surveyor General for Edward Wakefield's New Zealand Company at Port Nicholson from 1840 to 1843, he and his team surveyed the town of Wellington, after finding the land on the Petone foreshore unsuitable, laying out the town belt and other features and making provision for the much debated "tenth" share of the land for local Māori. [END] 
[1]  [DOC] Edward Gibbon Wakefield (20 March 1796 – 16 May 1862) was a British politician. He is considered a key figure in the early colonisation of South Australia and New Zealand. [END]  
Answer: 20 March 1796
20 March 1796