Order in Council Regarding Delaware Surrender of Moravian Reserve

Order in Council Regarding Delaware Surrender of Moravian Reserve

Order in Council Regarding Delaware Surrender of Moravian Reserve

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Acceptance of a recommendation to approve the surrender of the Moravian Reserve in Orford and Zone by the Delaware Nation of Indians. Several conditions related to the surrender were accepted as well. See IT210 - Original or Duplicate Surrender, IT211 - Original or Duplicate Surrender, IT213 - Surrender, IT214 - Surrender

Nation of Maker: Other
Nation of Origin

Delaware Nation surrendering lands

Date Made or Date Range: 1857-06-03
Seasonal time
English: Spring
Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

Treaty document

Materials

parchment, ink

Description of Writing/Text

Description of Order in Council:

The Superintendent General of Indian Affairs has submitted for approval a surrender to Her Majesty the Queen by the Delaware Nation of Indians of the Indian Reserve in the Townships of Orford and Zone, known as the Moravian Tract. Terms of the surrender were as follows:

1. Land shall be reserved and divided into lots among the Indians of the band.

2. Each family shall receive a document giving them exclusive occupation of the lot allotted to them.

3. Proceeds of the sale of the surrendered land shall be held in trust for the band.

4. The interest of said proceeds shall be paid half yearly.

The committee thus recommended that the surrender be accepted and registered.

Signatories:

Wm. H. Lee, C.E.C.

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Condition: two holes in top left corner used to bind documents
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

Date document signed

Current Location: Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: Government Archives Division Reference Indian Treaty Number 212
Link to Institution's Collections Database: www.collectionscanada.gc.ca
Publication History

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 216.

GKS Reference Number: 870
How to Cite this Item

3 June 1857, Order in Council Regarding Delaware Surrender of Moravian Reserve, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1845, Reel T-9939, GAD REF IT212, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 3319, accessed [date]).

Record Creation Context

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).

Approximate Place of Origin

43.3, -78.1

Source of Information about Places

Location of treaty lands

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