paper, brown ink, wax

Crown seal

Description of Land Sold:

Tract of land situated in the Township of Hawkesbury (Eastern Division), in the County of Prescott, in the Eastern District, in our said Province, containing by measurement 1200 acres, being lots number 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, and 20 in the Third Concession of the said Township of Hawkesbury, together with all the woods and waters there lying. Commencing in front of the said concession 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, more or less, to the allowance for road in the rear of he said concession; then north sixty-five degrees west nineteen chains more or less, to the western limit in each lot; then north twenty-five degrees east one hundred and five chains twenty-seven links more or less, to the allowance for road in front of the said concession; then south sixty-five degrees east nineteen chains, more or less, to the place of beginning in each lot.

Witnesses:

Francis Gore, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor

Crown Signatories:

Wm. Jarvis, Secretary

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 40-42.

14 November 1809, Grant of land to Catherine Claus, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1842, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT 046, http://grasac.org/gks (heritage item id no. 2554, 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).