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Grant to Six Nations Of Eastern Lake Ontario for Revolutionary War Loss
Grant to Six Nations Of Eastern Lake Ontario for Revolutionary War Loss
Grant to Six Nations Of Eastern Lake Ontario for Revolutionary War Loss
A grant of land by the government given to the Six Nations as compensation for losses incurred during the Revolutionary War.
Nation affected by treaty
Treaty document
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paper, brown ink
6 seals
Description of Land Sold:
Tract of land will be bounded in front by the Bay of Quinte between the mouths of the River Shannon and Bowen’s Creek about twelve miles west by a line running north sixteen degrees west from the west side of the mouth of the River Shannon, and east by a line running north sixteen degrees, west from the mouth of Bowen’s Creek, and north, by a line running east sixteen degrees north and west sixteen degrees, south at the distance of about thirteen miles back from the Bay of Quinte, measured on the western boundary aforesaid, to the north east angle of the Township of Thurlow.
Crown Signatories:
William Jarvis, Secretary
First Nations Signatories:
None
Witnesses:
John Graves Simcoe, Lieutenant Governor
Date document signed
Provenance
Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680-1890, 2 vols.,(Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1891) 1: 7-8.
About This GRASAC Record
1 April 1793, Grant to Six Nations Of Eastern Lake Ontario for Revolutionary War Loss, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1840, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT 006, http://grasac.org/gks (heritage item id no. 2306, 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).
43.2557, -79.0718
Location of treaty lands