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Description of Land Sold:

In consideration of the sum of five shillings of lawful money of Upper Canada paid by James Baby, John Henry Dunn, and George Herchmer Markland, John Johnson Claus agrees to sell the following two thousand eight hundred acres of land situated in the Township of Hawkesbury. This tract of land was purchased in trust for the sole use of the Six Nation's Indians, settled by King George III upon the Ouse or Grand River in the Province of Upper Canada.

The land is composed of lots numbers twelve, fifteen, and eighteen in the fourth concessions of the said township; lots numbers thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, eighteen, and twenty-five in the fifth concession; and lots numbers fourteen, fifteen, seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen in the sixth concession of the said Township of Hawkesbury, and butted and bounded as follows: commencing in front of the said concessions at the north-east angle of each of the said lots respectively; then south twenty-five degrees west one hundred and five chains twenty seven links, to the allowance for road in the rear of the said concessions; then north sixty-five degrees west nineteen chains to the western limit of each lot; then north twenty-five degrees east one hundred and five chains twenty-seven links, to the allowance for road in front of the said concessions; then south sixty-four degrees east nineteen chains, to the place of beginning in each lot.

Witnesses:

Robert Hamilton

Walter H. Dickson

Crown Signatories:

John Claus

J. Baby

John H. Dunn

George H. Markland

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 80-82.

6 June 1831, Buyback of Six Nations Land in Township of Hawkesbury, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1843, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT 097, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 2785, 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).