paper, brown ink, wax, ribbon

10 doodemag, 1 crown seal

Description of Land Sold:

Tract of land is situated in the Home District of the Province of Upper Canada, containing by measurement 85,000 acres, be the same more or less, together with all the woods and waters thereon lying and being under the reservations hereinafter expressed; which said 85,000 acres of land are butted and bounded or may be otherwise known as follows, that is to say: Commencing at the eastern bank of the mouth of the River Etobicoke, being on the limit of the western boundary line of the Toronto purchase in the year of Our Lord 1787; then north twenty-two degrees west six miles; then south thirty-eight degrees west twenty-six miles more or less, until it intersects a line on a course north forty-five degrees west produced from the outlet at Burlington Bay, being the north-eastern boundary line of the Township of Flamborough East, and of the purchase in the year of Our Lord 1792; then along the said line south forty-five degrees east two hundred and thirty-three chains and fifty eight links more or less, to the lands granted to Captain Joseph Brant; then north forty-five degrees east one hundred and twenty-seven chains to the northerly angle of the said lands; then south forty-five degrees east two hundred and ninety-three chains more or less to Lake Ontario; then north-easterly along the water’s edge of said lake to the eastern bank of the River Etobicoke, then place of beginning. However, the Mississauga Nation shall have sole right of the fisheries in the Twelve Mile Creek, the Sixteen Mile Creek, the River Credit, and the River Etobicoke, together with the lands on each side of the said creeks and the River Credit as delineated and laid down on the annexed plan, the said right of fishery and reserves extending from the Lake Ontario up the said creeks and the River Credit the distance hereinafter mentioned and described and no further.

Witnesses:

D. Cameron, Commissioner

Donald Maclean, Commissioner

H.M. Smith

Geo. R. Ferguson, Capt. Canadian Regiment

Peter Selby, Asst. Secy. I.A.

J. B. Rousseaux

Wm. M. Crowther, Lieut. 41st Regt.

James Davidson, Hospital Staff

David Price, Interpreter

Crown Signatories:

W. Claus, D.S.G. on behalf of the Crown

First Nation’s Signatories:

Chechalk

Quenepenon

Wabukanyne

Okemapenesse

Wabanose

Kebonecence

Oshenego

Acheton

Patequan

Wabakaego

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 37-40.

6 September 1806, Purchase of Land From Etobicoke to Burlington Bay, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1842, Reel T-9338, GAD REF ID 042, http://grasak.org/gks (heritage item id no. 2535, 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).