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Description of Land Sold:

The Chiefs and Principal Men of the Mohawk Indians, resident on the lands reserved for their use in the County of Hastings, Midland District and Province of Upper Canada, do grant, assign, release, transfer, and set over to the Sovereign Lord the King, His heirs and successors, all their right, title, interest, and claim whatsoever to the following parcels of land which were previously reserved for their use in the County of Hastings. The land is described as being located near the Bay of Quinte, being parts of the broken fronts of lots numbers thirty-three, thirty-four, and thirty-five, containing approximately 85 acres of land; commencing in the centre of lot number thirty-three at the distance of twenty chains from the shore of the Bay of Quinte; then north sixteen degrees west fifteen chains eighty links, to where a post has been planted at the north-west angle of the said parcel of land; then north seventy-four degrees east ten chains; then south sixteen degrees east six chains; then north seventy-four degrees east twenty-two chains; then south sixteen degrees east twenty-three chains, to the shore of the Bay of Quinte; then southerly along the water’s edge twenty-six chains, to where a post has been planted at the south-west angle of the said parcel of land; then north sixteen degrees west twenty chains; then south seventy-four degrees west six chains, to the place of beginning. And also that other parcel of land, being a part of lot number thirty-two, in the second concession of the aforesaid reserved lands, containing 115 acres of land, be the same more or less – commencing where a post has been planted at the south-west angle of the aforesaid lot; then north sixteen degrees west fifty chains, to the centre of the said concession; then north eighty-two degrees thirty minutes east eleven chains seventy links; then south sixteen degrees east fifty chains, to the concession line; then south eighty-two degrees thirty minutes west eleven chains seventy links, to the place of beginning; also commencing where a post has been planted at the north-west angle of the aforesaid lot; then north eighty-two degrees thirty minutes east eleven chains seventy links; then south sixteen degrees east fifty chains, to the centre of the said concession; then south eighty-two degrees thirty minutes west eleven chains seventy links, to the southern limit of the said lot; then north sixteen degrees west fifty chains, to the place of beginning.

The first described parcel of land will be used as a burial ground and site for a Protestant Episcopal Church, and also for the site of a parsonage house and glebe attached; and the latter described parcel of land for a glebe lot for the accustomed use and purposes of the church.

Witnesses:

Saltern Givins, Missionary to the Mohawks

Alex. Campbell, Deputy Surveyor

James Maher

First Nation’s Signatories:

Brant Brant

Powles Claus

Joseph Pynn

Joseph Hill, Sr.

Seth Powles

Jacob Green

David Smart

William Maracle

Brant Powles

Jno. Hill, Jr.

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 101-102.

20 January 1836, Six Nations Surrender of Two Parcels of Land for Church and Glebe, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1843, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT 113, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 2856, 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).