Surrender of 1.5 Million Acres
Surrender of 1.5 Million Acres
Surrender of 1.5 Million Acres
Manuscript copy of an agreement between the Chippewa Nation and the Crown to surrender 1,592,000 acres known as the Huron Tract in the Home District, in consideration of a yearly payment of 1200 pounds currency in goods. See IT055 - Original, IT056 - Contemporary Copy, IT058 - Form Unknown
First Nation surrendering land
Treaty document
Read More About This Relative
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
Provenance
Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 47.
About This GRASAC Record
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).
43.9622, -79.64857
Location of treaty lands