paper, ink, wax

12 doodemag, 12 red wax seals (3 have "I.D." embossed in the wax)

Description of Land Sold:

The Chiefs of the Chippewa Tribe of Indians residing at Saugeen and at Owen Sound, have surrendered and do hereby surrender unto Her Majesty Queen Victoria, all and singular that certain tract or parcel of land and premises situated, in the Counties of Grey and Bruce, in the Province of Canada, and composed at the southerly part of the lands commonly called and known by the name of the Saugeen Tract, which is bounded on the south by Lake Huron and the Huron District, and on the north by the Georgian Bay, and comprised within the following limits: commencing on the present southern limit of said Indian tract at the intersection thereof by the easterly side of the allowance for road between the forth and fifth concessions of the Township of Derby, being about three miles westerly from the Indian Village of Neywash; then north nine degrees west forty chains, statute measure, to a post to be planted; then south seventy-six degrees fifteen minutes west, or parallel with the said southerly line of limit of the said Indian lands, twelve hundred chains, or to within about two miles of the Indian Village of Saugeen; then south nine degrees east forty chains to the said southern present limit of the said Indian lands; then north seventy-six degrees and fifteen minutes east twelve hundred chains to the place of beginning, containing four thousand and eight hundred acres of land. This land is surrendered to Her Majesty in trust for the purpose of being sold to the best advantage, and the proceeds thereof to be invested in such a fund or funds as the Governor General or other person administering the Government of Canada for the time being may direct, for the benefit of the said tribe and their posterity.

Witnesses:

C. Rankine, D.P.S.

John Frost

Francis Assikinnek, Interpreter

David Sawyer, Interpreter

First Nations Signatories:

Jacob Metegob

Alex Madwayosh

John Kewayuahwon

John Manedowob

John Wahsageyhig

Joseph R. James

John T. Wabbabdick

John Jones

Thomas Wahbahdick

John Snake

George Ryerson

George Arthur Tabegum

Crown Signatories:

T.G. Anderson, S.I.A.

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 169.

2 September 1851, Saugeen Tract Surrender, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1845, Reel T-9939, GAD REF IT161, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 3097, 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).