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Description of Land Sold:

It was agreed that in consideration of the yearly sum of 2 pounds 10 shillings of lawful money paid to each eligible member, the Mississauga Nation agrees to surrender to the British the following tract of land:

Commencing at the north-west angle of the Township of Rawdon; then along the division line between the Midland and Newcastle Districts north sixteen degrees west thirty-three miles; then north seventy-four degrees east sixty-one miles, to a division line produced north sixteen degrees west from the north-east angle of the Township of Bedford; then north sixteen degrees west to the Ottawa or Grand River; then down the said river to the north-west angle of the Township of Nepean; then south sixteen degrees east fifteen miles, to the north-east angle of the Township of Marlborough; then south fifty-four degrees west to the north-west angle of the Township of Crosby; then south seventy-four degrees west sixty-one miles, to the place of beginning; containing about 2,748,000 acres.

Witnesses:

J.P. Hawkins, Major 68th Regt., and Lt. Col.

Wm. Smyth, Lieut. 68th Regt.

John Ferguson, I., I.D.

First Nation’s Signatories:

Nawacamigo

Antenewayway

Kabratsiwaybiyebe

Wabakeek

Shewitagan

Nawaquarkecom

Shawandais

Pejehejeck

Papewan

Wabeckeneme

Naganabaway

Shebeshee

Naiquakan

Wabanzick

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 63-65.

28 November 1822, Mississauga Land Surrender in Midland and Johnstown District, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1843, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT 085, http://grasac.org/gks (heritage item id no. 2689, 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).