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The Chippewa Chiefs of the River Thames, have laid before the Governor General the following proposal: due to the benefits which have conferred upon the Indians at Lower Munsee by the operation of an Industrial School, the Chippewa Chiefs propose to grant a lease or license of occupation for the following pieces of land located at Lower Munsee, in the Township of Caradoc, in the London District.

Commencing at the north-westerly angle of the Church ground; then north sixteen degrees west sixteen chains thirteen links; then north eighty-five degrees east six chains thirty-two and a half links; then south sixteen degrees east sixteen chains thirteen links, to the rear limit of the Church ground; then south eighty-five degrees west six chains thirty-two and a half links, to the place of beginning; containing ten acres, being the Parsonage lot.

Description of the School Lot: commencing at the water's edge of the River Thames, on the east side of the mouth of the Creek called the Saw Mill Creek, being at the distance of fifty-four chains and sixty seven links, on a course north forty-five degrees east from the allowance for road between the Townships of Caradoc and Ekfrid; then north-westerly and north-easterly along the channel of the said Creek against the stream forty-seven chains and twenty-five links, to a certain maple tree; then south seventy-two degrees and thirty minutes east two chains and seventy-four links; then south fifty-two degrees east twenty four chains and eighty-six links, to the water's edge of the River Thames; then south-westerly along the edge of the said river with the stream twenty chains and twenty links, to the place of beginning; containing fifty-seven and a half acres, being for the use of the School Master.

Witnesses:

J.B. Clench, Supt. Indian Affairs

Peter Jones, Wesleyan Missionary

Henry C. Hogg, Schoolmaster

First Nations Signatories:

John Riley

Miskokomon

James Muskununjie

Chicken Muskununjie

John Tummago

Joseph Canotung

Eyaubanse

Captain Thomas

John Mundiway

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 145-146.

13 February 1849, Surrender of a School Lot in Caradoc Township, Middlesex, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1844, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT145, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 2933, 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).