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Description of Land Sold:

In consideration of the premises and of the sum of five shillings of lawful money to the said Robert Bruce paid in hand at or before the sealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt hereby acknowledged, he, the said Robert Bruce, hath granted, bargained, sold, aliened, released, conveyed, and confirmed, and by these presents doth grant unto Her Majesty, her Heirs and successors, all that the said tract or parcel of land described as follows: all that piece or parcel of land, being part of lot number two, clergy reserve, in the first concession of the northern division of the Township of Orillia, and commencing at a post planted on the north side line of the said lot, being twenty-one chains and thirty-three links from the north-west angle of the said lot; then north sixty degrees east twelve chains to the centre of the said first concession to a post where there planted; then south thirty degrees east one chain forty links, to a post there planted and forming the jog in the said north side line, then north sixty degrees east eight chains to a post there planted; then south thirty degrees east eight chains twenty-five links to a post there planted; then south sixty degrees west forty-one chains thirty-three links, to the township line between the Townships of Orillia and Medonte; then north thirty degrees west one chain; then north sixty degrees east twenty-one chains, thirty-three links to a post there planted; then north thirty degrees west eight chains sixty-five links, be the same more or less, to the place of beginning, containing twenty acres and fifty perches; all that said parcel of land comprised in and conveyed or intended to have been conveyed unto the said James Givins, former Superintendent of Indian Affairs, in and by the said hereinbefore in part recited Indenture as aforesaid.

Witnesses:

S.Y. Chesley

Michael Turner

Crown Signatories:

Robert Bruce

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 165-167.

4 February 1852, Robert Bruce Surrender, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1845, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT159, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 3095, 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).