Description of Land Sold:

In consideration of the sum of five shillings of good and lawful money of the said Province of Upper Canada, the Tribe of Chippeway Indians in the District of London have agreed to surrender to the Crown all that land commencing at the south east corner of the Chippewa Reservation, on the waters edge; then north 44 degrees 50” west, being the side line between such reservation and lots 17 south of the Longwoods Road, in the Township of Carradoc, to the north-east corner of the said reserve; then along the northern boundary of the said reserve south 40 degrees 10” west seventy chains, and then south 10’ east to the side line between lots 9 and 10; then along the said line to the concession road between the 4th and 5th Ranges; then easterly along the said concession road north 40 degrees 10” east to the water’s edge; then north-easterly along the water’s edge to the place of beginning, the south-east corner of the said reserve, except and always reserved thereout forty acres of the said block or tract of land to be selected (for the use of the Indians) by the Surveyor General of the Province. Map indicates land surrendered in blue ink, and land reserved in red ink.

Witnesses:

J.B. Clench, Superintendent of Indian Affairs

W.M. Young, Carradoc, J.P.

B. Brewster Brigham, Capt. 1st Regt. Oxford Militia

First Nation’s Signatories:

Kanotang

John Tamicoo

Muskokomon

Yawbass

Chicken

John Riley

Masquononja

Charlo

John Mundiway

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 90-91.

5 February 1834, Map of Land Surrendered in Caradoc Township, Middlesex County, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1843, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT 106, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 2838, accessed [date]).

This record was created under the direction of Heidi Bohaker as part of a larger research project funded by an Aboriginal Research Grant titled ““Braiding Knowledges: Anishinaabe Heritage in Community Perspective”from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).