parchment, ink, wax, ribbon

3 doodemag, 3 wax seals

Description of Land Sold:

In consideration of the sum of 4,000 pounds lawful money paid in hand, the Principal Chiefs of the Chippewa Nation of Indians agreed to surrender unto His Majesty King George III all that parcel of land situated between Kempenfelt Bay upon Lake Simcoe and the Lake Huron, in the Home District of the Province of Upper Canada, and containing by estimation 250,000 acres of land. The lands are described as follows:

Commencing on the north shore of Kempenfelt Bay on Lake Simcoe, where a stone boundary is to be fixed, at the distance of twenty chains on a course north eighty-one degrees west from the base of a point called Sand Point projecting itself about five chains and a half to the said bay; then from the said stone boundary north forty degrees west thirty-six miles and a quarter, to Lake Huron; then along the shore of the said lake and following the several turnings and windings of the same around sundry points of land and bays to the bottom of a bay called Nottawaysague Bay, being the north-western angle of the Penetanguishene purchase in the year 1798; then along the south-western boundary of the said purchase on a course south seventy degrees east seven miles and a half, to a small bay called Opetequoyawsing, and being the south-easterly angle of the said Penetanguishene purchase; then northerly through a small strait and along the eastern shore thereof to Gloucester or Sturgeon Bay; from thence following the shore of said bay and also the shore of Matchedas Bay easterly, southerly and northerly according to the several windings thereof until it intersects a line at or near the mouth of a small lake, being the western boundary of a purchase said to have been made in the year 1785; then south along the western limits of the said purchase eleven miles till it intersects a line produced north seventy-eight degrees west from the waters of Lake Simcoe near the carrying place hereinafter mentioned; then south seventy-eight degrees east along the southern boundary line of the said last mentioned purchase to the waters of Lake Simcoe near to a carrying place leading to a small lake, distant about three miles westerly, and then south-westerly along the north-western shore of Lake Simcoe and of Kempenfelt Bay, following the several windings and turnings of the same to the place of beginning.

Witnesses:

Elisha Beman, Commissioner

Henry Procter, Commissioner

W.M. Cochrane, Capt. Com. Lt. Infty.

Alex Ferguson, Lieut. Ind. Dept.

William Gruet, Interpreter

Crown Signatories:

J. Givins, S.I.A., on behalf of the Crown

First Nations Signatories:

Kinaybicoinini

Aisaince

Misquuckkey

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 43-45.

18 November 1815, Purchase of 250,000 Acres of Land Between Lake Simcoe and Lake Huron, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1842, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT050, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 3278, 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).