parchment, ink, wax

16 doodemag

Description of Land Sold:

Tract of land situated on the north side of the River Thames, beginning at a certain station on the north bank of the said river about 19 miles above the Delaware Village following the river about 12 miles distant from the said village in a direct northerly course, being about two miles above a lime stone rock and spring on the said river which station will be more perfectly found by a line run from the main or lower fork at London six miles on a southerly course, 68 degrees, thirty minutes west. Thence north 21 degrees thirty minutes west till it intersects with the River Thames, which intersection is the station or place beginning as said before; from thence north 21 degrees thirty minutes west 12 miles. Then north 68 degrees thirty minutes east 12 miles, then south 21 degrees thirty minutes east till it intersects a right line running the upper forks of the said river at Oxford to the main or lower forks of the said river at London, then along the said line to the said upper forks on a course north 68 degrees thirty minutes east, thence down the River Thames following the several windings and courses with the stream to the place of beginning. The lands described above include all the woods and waters lying within. The tract of land was purchased for 1200 pounds currency worth of goods.

Witnesses:

Richard Pollard and Thomas Smith, Coms. On behalf of the Province of Upper Canada

T. McKee, Supt. N.W.D.

A. Iredell, D.S.W.D.

John Martin

G. Selby, A.S.I.A.

Charleveaume

Nicola Lasille

Jaque Peltier

David Tait

Crown Signatories:

A. McKee, D.S.G.D.I.G.I.A. on behalf of his Majesty

First Nations Signatories:

Shimindock, Chief of the Ottawas

Negig, Chief

Mitchewass

Camcommenania

Negig

Wapenousa

Kitchymughqua

Nawacissynabe

Ticomegasson

Kiashke

Wasson

Wittaness

Peyshiky

Annamakance

Macounce

Nangee

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 17-19.

7 September 1796, Purchase of North Shore of Thames River (Oxford and Middlesex), Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1840, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT023, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 3262, 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).