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Description of Land Granted:

Thomas Mercer Jones and Frederick Widder in consideration of the sum of eighty-seven pounds ten shillings lawful money of the Province of Canada, to them, as attorneys of the Canada Company, paid by Samuel P. Jarvis, Chief Superintendent of Indian Affairs, do surrender unto Her Majesty Queen Victoria all that certain parcel of land situated as follows: composing lot fifteen, in the second concession of the Township of Alnwick, containing two hundred acres. To be held in trust for the sole use and benefit of the Mississauga Tribe of Indians known and described as of Kingston and the Bay of Quinte.

Witnesses:

Donald McDonald

Thomas Collier

Signatories:

Thomas Mercer Jones

Frederick Widder

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 274.

8 November 1841, Grant of Land in Alnwick Township for the Benefit of the Mississauga Indians, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1846, Reel T-9939, GAD REF IT 253, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 3234, 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).