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Description of Land Surrendered:

The Chiefs of the Mohawk Nation on the Bay of Quinte have surrendered unto Her Majesty Queen Victoria all that parcel of land, being part of lot number four, in the second concession of Tyendinaga, in the County of Hastings, containing eighteen acres, and butted and bounded as follows:

Commencing at the south-easterly shore of the Salmon River, in the limit between lots numbers four and five in said concession; then south sixteen degrees east twelve chains thirty links, to where a post have been planted; then south eighty-two degrees thirty minutes west twenty chains thirty-eight links; to the limit between lots numbers three and four in said concession; then north sixteen degrees west six chains fifty links, to the Salmon River, then north-easterly, following the shore of said river up stream, twenty one chains, to the place of beginning. Also lots numbers thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-four, and thirty-five in the ninth concession of the said Township of Tyendinaga, containing in all eight hundred acres of land.

Witnesses:

L. Wallbridge

Crown Signatories:

T.G. Anderson, S.I.A.

First Nations Signatories:

Powlis Claus

Brant Brant

Abraham Brant

Alexander Loft

Seth W. Hill

Thomas Claus

James Maracle

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 212.

4 July 1856, Mohawks of Tyendinaga Surrender Part of Lot On Reserve, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1845, Reel T-9939, GAD REF IT 206, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 3187, 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).