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William Charles Hume, formerly of Marchmont, in the Township of North Orillia, at present residing in the County of Wicklow, Ireland, has appointed an attorney (Skeffington Connor, of the City of Toronto) for the purpose of executing and delivering a sufficient deed of the following sold parcel of land: a parcel of lot number 2 in the first concession of northern Orillia, in the County of Simcoe, to the Indian Department for a valuable consideration (containing twenty acres and fifty perches).

Witnesses:

John Jas. Nugent of Belvedere Place, in the City of Dublin, Attorney-at-Law

Crown Signatories:

William Charles Hume

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 161-162.

1 January 1850, Charles Humes' Appointment of Power of Attorney, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1845, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT 156, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 3068, 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).