parchment, brown and red ink, wax, ribbon

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Description of Land Sold:

It has been resolved by the Six Nation Indians residing upon a tract of land on the Grand River, that it would be greatly for the profit of the said Indians and their posterity if certain parcels or tracts of land occupied by them were surrendered to His Majesty, for the purpose of being sold and the monies arising therefrom applied to and for the use and benefit of the Indians.

The Six Nation’s Indians do agree to surrender a tract of land measuring approximately 48,000 acres, and commencing on the western limit of the Township of Ancaster and on the south side of the allowance for road between the first and second concessions of the Township of Brantford; then south seventy-eight degrees west along the south side of the said allowance for road one thousand and thirty-two chains and thirty-nine links, to the Township of Burford; then south fifteen degrees forty minutes east four hundred and eleven chains and six links, along the eastern limit of the said Township of Burford to the northerly angle of the said Township of Oakland; then south sixty-two degrees thirty minutes east three-hundred and seventy-five chains, along the northerly limit of the said Township of Oakland to the south side of the public highway or road leading from Malcolm’s Mills in the said Township of Oakland through the settlement and village of Mount Pleasant to the Town of Brantford; then north-easterly along the south side of the said public highway or road crossing the said Ouse or Grand River on the bridge at the Town of Brantford on the south side of Colborne street; then north fifteen degrees east twenty-seven chains, to a certain stone at the northerly angle of Robert Biggar’s land; then north twenty-seven degrees thirty minutes east fifty-nine chains twenty-six links, to the north-west angle of the town plot of Brantford; then north eighty-four degrees thirty minutes east eighty-two chains twenty-eight links, to the north-east angle of the said town plot of Brantford; then south eighteen degrees thirty minutes west seventy-nine chains forty-five links, to the north side of Colborne street, at the eastern limit of the said Town of Brantford; then south five degrees thirty minutes east one chain, to the south side of Colborne street; then easterly along the south side of the public highway or road leading from the Town of Brantford to Ancaster, seven hundred and fifty chains, to the western limit of the said Township of Ancaster; then north sixty-two degrees thirty minutes west five hundred and fifty chains, to the place of beginning.

Reserving, nevertheless, from the above surrender and the description of the lands and premises therein described, all the lands embraced in the second concession of the said Township of Brantford, between lots number thirty-four and fifty-two; also all the lands embraced in the third and fourth concessions of the said Township of Brantford, lying west of a line run from the north-east angle of lot number fifty-one in the said third concession, south thirty degrees west seventy-nine chains, to Fairchild’s Creek, west of the said Fairchild’s Creek, north of the aforesaid public highway or road, east of the town plot of Brantford and east of the lands of William Kennedy Smith.

Witnesses:

W.K. Smith

Lewis Burwell

Crown Signatories:

Jas. Winniet, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Six Nation’s

First Nation’s Signatories:

Henry Brant

William Doxtater

Joseph Hess

Jacob Martin

Isaac Lock

John Johnson

Aaron Frashier

Awennaras

Onakaronton

Skanawatih

Oyatajiwak

Ahriron

Asarekrwah

Kahnehtakeh

Peter Green

Joseph Karouhyontye

Shoherese

Tesonarenyen

Onahteron

Joseph Doxtater

Otshaton

Tayekawehhe

John Silver

John Obadiah

William Alvis

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 96-99.

2 April 1835, Surrender of 48,000 Acres on Grand Reserve, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1843, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT110, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 3309, 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).