Bay de Quente Tract.

Bay de Quente Tract.

Bay de Quente Tract.

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Introduction

The speaker asks the King to set aside a tract of land, in perpetuity, for the Six Nations, in recompense for their loyalty and losses. Geopolitical boundaries for the requested tract of land are provided. It is requested that the land be given "for ever freely and clearly of and from all and all manner of rents fines or services whatsoever to be Rendered by them...of and from all conditions, stipulations and agreements whatever except as herein after by us expressed and declared." He then goes on at length about the fact that the land to be reserved for the peoples of the Six Nations is to be inalienable to all but the British Crown. NOTE TO GRASAC TEAM MEMEBERS: The author's name is given (twice) at p.100, but I cannot identify the cursive script.

Nation of Maker: None
Nation of Origin

In Document: Six Nations; Messissagwe Nation;

Date Made or Date Range: 1793
Techniques or Format

Ink on paper

Motifs and Patterns

None.

Additional Context

None.

Description of Writing/Text

People: Simcoe! John Graves! Esquire! Lieutenant Governor / Colonel ; George the Third! By the Grace of god of Great Britain, France and Ireland King / Defender of the faith

Condition: Good.
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

Date given in document.

Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: Claus Papers, Vol. 5 (M.G. 19, F1) reel C1479, pp. 99-100.
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: 0
GKS Reference Number: 631
How to Cite this Item

Claus Papers, Vol. 5 (M.G. 19, F1) reel C1479, pp. 99-100.

Record Creation Context

Created by Research Assistant Aaron Mills during the first summer of the SSHRC Aboriginal Research Grant 2007 to 2010

Approximate Place of Origin

43.6, -71.9