parchment, ink, wax, purple ribbon

Description of Land Sold:

In consideration of the yearly sum of twelve hundred pounds, province currency, in goods at the Montreal price, the Chippewa Nation do freely, fully, and voluntarily surrender and convey to His Majesty, the following tract of land:

Bounded by the District of London on the west, by Lake Huron on the north, by the Penetanguishene purchase (made in 1815) on the east, by the south shore of Kempenfelt Bay, on the western shore of Lake Simcoe and Cook’s Bay and the Holland River to the north-west angle of the Township of King, containing by computation one million five hundred and ninety-two thousand acres.

Witnesses:

J. Givins, Supt. Indian Affairs

Alex McDonell, Asst. Sec’y Indian Affairs

John Claus

Crown Signatories:

W. Claus, Dep. Supt. Gen., on behalf of the Crown

First Nation’s Signatories:

Musquakie, or Yellow Head

Kaqueticum, or Snake

Muskigonce, or Swamp

Manitonobe, or Male Devil

Manitobinince, or Devil’s Bird

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 47.

17 October 1818, Surrender of 1.5 Million Acres, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1842, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT057, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 3286, 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).