paper, brown ink, wax

5 doodemag, 13 seals,

Description of Land Sold:

A tract of land lying between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, beginning at Lake Ontario four miles south-west, from the point opposite to Fort Niagara. It then runs from there along Washquarter Creek into Lake Ontario, and from there fourtyfive degrees north, fifty miles west, forty five degrees south, twenty miles west, and then runs south until it meets the River La Tranche. It then runs down that river to the part where a due south course will lead to the mouth of Catfish Creek, and emptying into Lake Erie. From the River La Tranche it follows a southerly course to the mouth of Catfish Creek; then down Lake Erie to the land previously purchased from the Mississauga Indians; and from there along the boundary of that purchase to Lake Ontario. This purchase includes all the woods, waterways, paths, waters, within these lands. The purchase price was set at 1180 pounds currency.

Crown Signatories:

John Graves Simcoe, Lieutenant Governor for King George III

First Nations Signatories:

Wabakanyne

Wabanip

Kautabus

Wabaninship

Mattotow

Witnesses:

John Butter

R. Hamilton

Robert Kerr

Peter Russell

John McGill

David William Smith

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1891), 1: 5-7.

7 December 1792, Sale of land from Welland to Middlesex counties, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1840, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT 005, http://grasac.org/gks (heritage item id no. 2305, 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).