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Description of Land Sold:

In consideration of the sum of fifty pounds province currency, the Chiefs of the Mississauga Nation agree to surrender to the British the following parcel of land:

A tract of lad situate, lying and being in the Township of Toronto, in the County of York, in the Home District and Province of Upper Canada, and marked “E” on the plan to this indenture annexed, being the central part of the Mississauga Indian Reserve on the River Credit, in the said Township of Toronto, which said parcel or tract of land is butted and bounded, or may be otherwise known as follows, that is to say: commencing in the eastern limit of Dundas street, in the southern boundary of the said Indian Reserve; then south forty-five degrees east fifty chains then north thirty-eight degrees east parallel to Dundas street, three hundred chains, to the northern boundary of the said Reserve; then north sixty-nine degrees west twelve chains to where the said boundary line forms the first angle; then south sixty-four degrees west one hundred and fifty-five chains, to where the said boundary line forms the second angle; then north forty-five degrees west twenty chains until it intersects a line north of Dundas Street and parallel thereto, produced on a course north thirty-eight degrees east at the distance of fifty chains on a course north forty-five degrees west from the western limit of Dundas Street; then north thirty-eight degrees west parallel to the said street, one hundred and sixty chains, to the southern boundary line of the said reserve; then south forty-five degrees east fifty-one chains, to the place of beginning, containing 2,000 acres, together with all the woods and waters thereon lying and being.

Witnesses:

J.P. Catty, Lieut. Royal Engs., Comdg.

Arthur Mair, Ens. 68 Light Regt.

J.L. Tighe, H. Asst. Surg. To the Forces

D.J. Skene, Lieut. 68 Light Regt.

D. Cameron

N. Coffin

J. Givins, Supt. Indian Affairs

Alex McDonell, Asst. Secy. I.A.

Wm. Gruet, Interpreter, Indian Department

Crown Signatories:

W. Claus, D.S.G. of I.A., on behalf of the Crown

First Nation’s Sigatories:

Acheton

Weiquesquome

Newoiquequah

Paushetaunoquetohe

Wabakagego

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 53-54.

28 February 1820, Surrender of Indian Reserve on Credit River, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1842, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT074, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 3295, 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).