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Description of Land Sold:

The Chiefs and Principal Men of the Chippewa Indians inhabiting and claiming the tract of land in the Township of Caradoc, in the London District of the Province of Canada, have agreed and do hereby surrender to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, all their right, title, interest, claim, and demand to that piece or tract of land lying in the township, district and Province aforesaid, and may othewise be known as follows: commencing at a post planted on the east side of Colborne Road, in Upper Munsee, on the River Thames, at the distance of one chain and seventy-five links from the top of Westbrook's Hill, on a course south five degrees and forty minutes west; then south eighty-four degrees and thirty minutes east seven chains and seventy-nine links, to a post planted at a point which is exactly one chain and sixty five links ten degrees and forty-five minutes east from a certain wild cherry tree blazed on four sides and about one foot in diameter; then north sixty-eight degrees east nine chains; then south twenty-two degrees east four chains forty-four and a half links; then south sixty-eight degrees west nine chains; then north twenty-two degrees west four chains forty-four and a half links, to the before-mentioned post described as being one chain and sixty five links from the said blazed cherry tree; then north twenty-two degrees west four chains forty-four and a half links, to the before mentioned post described as being one chain and sixty-five links from the said blazed cherry tree; then north eighty-four degrees and thirty minutes seven chains and seventy-nine links, to the place of beginning; containing four acres. To the end and purpose that Her Majesty may be graciously pleased to grant in fee simple, and form under such restrictions as Her Majesty's wisdom may appear meet, the said four acres of land for the purpose of an Industrial School being established by the Canadian Wesleyan Methodist Conference and Missionary Society, in connection with the British Conference, for the use and benefit of the Indian Tribes.

Witnesses:

J.B. Clench, Superintendent of Indian Affairs

Peter Jones, Wesleyan Missionary

Robert F. Keays, I.D.

Henry C. Hogg, Schoolmaster

First Nations Signatories:

John Riley

Miskokomon

James Muskununje

Chicken Muskunanje

John Tummago

Joseph Canotung

Eyaubanses

Captain Thomas

John Mundiway

Crown Signatories:

J.B. Clench, V.S.I.A.

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 143-144.

13 February 1849, Surrender of Four Acres in Caradoc Township, Middlesex, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1844, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT143, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 2931, 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).