Bay de Quente Tract.
Bay de Quente Tract.
Bay de Quente Tract.
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.
In Document: Six Nations; Messissagwe Nation;
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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
Date given in document.
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Claus Papers, Vol. 5 (M.G. 19, F1) reel C1479, pp. 99-100.
Created by Research Assistant Aaron Mills during the first summer of the SSHRC Aboriginal Research Grant 2007 to 2010