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Description of Land Sold:

In consideration of the yearly sum of 600 pounds province currency, on half in specie and the other in goods at the Montreal price, to be paid every year by His Majesty to the Chippewa Nation inhabiting and claiming the tract of land to be surrendered, which is as follows:

Commencing on the northerly side of the River Thames at the south-west angle of the Township of London; thence along the western boundary line of the Township of London in a course twenty-one degrees thirty minutes west twelve miles, to the north-west angle of the said township; then on a course about sixty-two degrees thirty minutes west forty-eight miles more or less, until it intersects a line on a course produced north two miles from the north-east angle of Shawanoe Township; then south two miles to the north-east angle of the said Shawanoe Township; then along the eastern boundary line of the said township twelve miles and a half, more or less, to the northern boundary line of the Township of Chatham; then east twenty-four miles to the River Thame; then along the water’s edge of the River Thames against the stream to the place of beginning. As part of this provisional agreement, a tract of land will be reserved situated on the northerly side of the River Thames nearly opposite to the northerly angle of the Township of Southwold and south-west angle of the Delaware Township, containing 15,360 acres; also reserving two miles square distant about four miles above the rapids near the source of Big Bear Creek, where the Indians have their improvements, and nearly parallel to the Moravian Village containing 5,120 acres, leaving 552,190 acres for the contents of the purchase.

Witnesses:

Theop. Hunt, Capt., 70th Regt.

H.H. Willson, Lieut. Royal Eng.

R. Runasame, Surg., Indian Dept.

J. Browne, Ens. 70th Regt.

George Ironside

George F. Rapp, Interpreter, Indian Department

J. Bte. Cadotte, Interpreter

Crown Signatories:

John Aiken, on behalf of the Crown

First Nation’s Signatories:

Tommago

Weyawwenind

Nawbowe

Maytoyzewon

Sagawsway

Moquammiss

Tekummegawsay

Paymekawnawwassegay

Quoikkegick

Pawbetang

Waywejaytin

Kaynotang

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 49-50.

9 March 1819, Provisonal Agreement for Thames River Surrender, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1842, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT 065, http://grasac.org/gks (heritage item id no. 2627, 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).