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Description of Land Sold:

In consideration of the yearly sum of six hundred and forty two pounds Montreal currency, the Principal Men of the Mississauga Nation agreed to surrender unto John Ferguson of Kingston, a tract of land described as follows: commencing at the north-west angle of the Township of Rawdon; then along the division line between the Midland District and the District of Newcastle, 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 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 two million seven hundred and forty-eight thousand acres.

Witnesses:

D. Washburn

Henry Murney

Benjamin Fairfield, Jr.

Crown Signatories:

John Ferguson, on behalf of the Crown

First Nations Signatories:

Papiwom

Wobekenense

Nongonseway

Kechegom

Komonjeveweny

Shebeshe

Nakawagan

Wabosek

Nawacamigo

Antenewayway

Itawobenon

Kablatsiwaybegebe

Wobukeek

Shiwitagon

Katouche

Nawakeshecom

Shawondaise

Kiwaishe

Nitinowinin

Kakekijick

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 62-63.

31 May 1819, Mississauga Surrender in South-east Ontario, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1843, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT083, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 3303, 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).