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20 doodemag, 1 crown seal

Description of Land Sold:

In consideration of the yearly sum of 1100 pounds currency, the Chippewa Nation do freely, fully, and voluntarily agree to surrender the following tract of land:

Commencing on the division line between the Home District and the District of London, at the most northerly angle of the District of Gore, being at the distance of fifty miles on a course north fifty degrees west from the outlet of Burlington Bay on Lake Ontario; then on a course north about eighty-four degrees west so as to strike Lake Huron ten miles and three-quarters north of the mouth of a large river emptying in the said lake, called by Captain Owen, of the Royal Navy, Red River Bason, seventy miles, to Lake Huron; then southerly along the shore of Lake Huron, crossing the mouth of the said river and following the several turnings and windings of the said lake along the water’s edge to the River St. Clair; then southerly down the said river, until it intersects the north-west angle of the Shawanoe Township at a hickory tree marked with a broad arrow on two sides, half a chain above the mouth of a small river; then east along the boundary of said township to the north-east angle thereof, 923 chains, then north two miles; then in a course about north sixty-two degrees thirty minutes east so as it will intersect the north-west angle of the said Township of London in a straight line, forty-eight miles to the north-west angle of the said Township of London; then along the northern boundary of the Township of London in a course north sixty-eight degrees thirty minutes east nine hundred and sixty chains, to the north-east angle of the said township; then south twenty-one degrees thirty minutes east along the eastern boundary line of the said Township of London to the purchase line in 1796; then along the said purchase line, being the northern boundary of Oxford and Dorchester north, in a course north sixty-eight degrees thirty minutes east until it intersects the purchase line in 1792, at the Upper Fork of River La Tranche or Thames, near the south-west angle of the Township of Blandford; then northerly and westerly up and along the eastern edge of the said river against the stream until it intersects the third line, in a south course from the outlet of Burlington Bay, of the said purchase in 1792, then north along the said purchase line twenty-four miles, until it intersects the northern boundary line of the said purchase; then north forty-five degrees east along the said boundary line twenty miles, to the place of beginning, reserving the following tracts of land:

Four miles square at some distance below the rapids of the River St. Clair, one mile in front by four deep, bordering on the said River St. Clair, and adjoining to the Shawanoe Township; two miles square at the River aux Sable, which empties into Lake Huron, and two miles at Kettle Point, Lake Huron, containing 23, 054 acres, leaving 2,756,960 acres, for the contents of the purchase.

Witnesses:

R.B. Coles, Major 76th Regt. Comg.

W. Bampton, Capt. 76th Regt.

J. Kennedy, Lt. 76th Regt.

R. Richardson, Surgeon, Indian Department

J.B. Clench, Clerk, Indian Affairs

George F. Rapp, Interpreter, Indian Department

Joe St. Germain, Interpreter, Indian Department

Crown Signatories:

James Givins, on the part of the Crown

First Nation’s Signatories:

Way-way-nosh

Osaw-a-wip

Showsquagewan

Shoquona

Puckeneuse

Negig

Oge-bick-in

Macadagicko

Michikehabeck

Animickence

Petaw-wick

Wa-pa-gace

Shaw-wine-penence

Shawginosh

Anotowin

Penence-o-quin

Chaoge-man

Chikatayan

Mokegewan

Equoikegan

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 65-67.

26 April 1825, Chippewa Surrender of Land on the River St. Clair, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1843, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT 087, http://grasac.org/gks (heritage item id no. 2763, 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).