parchment, wax, ribbon, black ink

Red wax seal

Description of Land Sold:

Land sold to Kerr sisters for one-pound currency commences on the south side of the Grand River, runs up the river so far as to contain a front of full forty chains wide. It then extends back from the river to the Indian line containing two thousand acres.

Crown Signatories:

Ralph Clench

Philip Stedman

First Nation’s Signatories:

Henry Dekarighogea

Jacob Lewis Ayonghuatha

Daniel Oghnawera

Peter Dewatogharanegea

Aaron Hill Degheanosongotha

Joseph Brant Henry Aaron Hill

Joseph Dewaseragegh

Thomas David Dewaseragegh

Joseph Oghnaongoghtor

Paulus Shagoyatiyoughstha

Seth Kaneharegowagh

Young Brant Agowanatha

Nicholas Tayoronyoghte

Adam Thaweyagearat

Abraham Onevaskanikon

Christian Oweanogon

Esther Dekaghentaghague

Catherine Gomeaghtentyatha

Sarah Aonghwintsujo

Catherine Gonwenghnongon

Catherine Otyanoghon

Catherine Teyoywaneagh

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1891), 1: 10-12.

20 May 1796, Six Nations Grant to the Kerr Sisters, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1840, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT 010, hhtp://grasac.org/gks (heritage item id no, 2308, 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).