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Description of Correspondence:

John Gault, Deputy Registrar, submitted unto the Honourable Joseph Howe, Chief Superintendent of Indian Affairs, certified copies of three deeds from G.S. Boulton to Samuel P. Jarvis of lands surrendered in the Township of Alnwick to be held in trust for the Mississauga Indians. Along with the lands mentioned in the attached deeds, lot number 7 and the west half of lot number 16 in the 2nd concession of Alnwick appeared to have been previously deeded to the Indians, but were in fact surrendered to the Crown in 1845.

Signatories:

John Gault, Deputy Registrar

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 224.

27 October 1870, Correspondence Regarding a Grant of Land in Alnwick Township, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1845, Reel T-9939, GAD REF IT224, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 3322, 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).