parchment, ink, wax

Description of Land Sold:

In consideration of the sum of five shillings of lawful money of Upper Canada, the Indians of the Wyandot or Huron Tribe residing in the Western District of the Province of Upper Canada agreed to surrender unto His Majesty William IV a parcel of land situated in the Western District known as the Huron Reserve. Commencing at a post or point on River Detroit, being the boundary between the said Huron Reserve and the military ground attached to Fort Amherst, in the Township of Malden; then running east seven miles until you strike the west line of the Township of Colchester; then north along the said line until you strike the south line of the Township of Sandwich; then west along the said line seven miles, to the River Detroit; then following the course of the said River Detroit to the place of beginning.

Witnesses:

J. Clarke, Captain 66th Regt. Commandant

Chas. Fredk. Gibson, 66th Regt.

Chas. Birche, J.P. W.D.

Crown Signatories:

George Ironside, S.I. Affairs

First Nations Signatories:

Adam Brown

John Gould

Harry Hunt

Joseph Warrow

Thomas McKee

John Hunt, Jr.

Alex Clarke

James Clarke

William Clarke

Francis Lafovay

Peter Clarke

Samuel Saunders

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 88-89.

13 August 1833, Huron Reserve Surrender, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1843, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT102, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 3308, 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).