paper, ink, wax

five doodems, five seals

Description of Lands Sold:

Beginning at the southwestern angle of a bay situated above certain French ruins, lying on the east side of a small strait leading from the said bay into a larger bay called Gloucester or Sturgeon Bay. Then north 70 degrees west to a bay of Lake Huron, then following the shores of Lake Huron, to the place of beginning. Treaty lands contain all the land to the northward of the said line running north 70 degrees west and lying between it and the waters of Lake Huron, together with the islands in the said Harbour of Penetanguishene. The treaty includes the land as well as all the woods and waters lying within. Price of the land set at 101 pounds Quebec currency, and thus purchased in the form of goods.

Crown Signatories:

Will Willcocks, Commissioner on behalf of the province

Alex Burns, Commissioner on behalf of the province

Sam Smith, Major

J.S. Rangers

Arthur Holden Brooking, Lt. 2nd Regiment

John McGill, Ajit. 2nd Regiment

J. Givins, Agent of Indians

W. Johnson Chew, Indian Department

Geo. Cown, I.D.

W. Claus, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, on behalf of the Crown

First Nations Signatories:

Chabondashea

Aasance

Wabenenouan

Ningawson

Omassanahsqutawah

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 15-17.

22 May 1798, Conveyance of Penetanguishene Harbour, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1840, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT 017, http://grasac.org/gks (heritage item id no. 2363, 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).