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Description of Land Sold:

The Chiefs and Principal Men of the Chippewa Indians inhabiting and claiming the tract of land in the Township of Caradoc, in the London District, have agreed to surrender unto Her Majesty Queen Victoria, the said land which is described as follows:

Commencing at a post planted on the north side of the river road at Lower Munsee at the distance of thirty chains forty-five links from the east side of the School lot, measured on the north side of the said road, otherwise at the distance of one hundred and one chains sixty seven links from the town line between Caradoc and Ekfrid, on a course north forty-five degrees east; then north sixteen degrees west six chains forty-five links; then north eighty-five degrees east six chains thirty-two and a half links; then south sixteen degrees east six chains forty-five links; then south eighty-five degrees west six chains thirty-two and a half links, to the place of beginning; containing four acres. To the end and purpose that Her said Majesty may be pleased to grant in fee simple, or under such restrictions as in Her said Majesty's wisdom may seem fit, the said four acres, upon which said four acres of land the Rev. Richard Hood, A.M. has erected an Episcopalian Church, under the direction of the Lord Bishop of Toronto, for the spiritual welfare of the Indians of the Lower Munsee Settlement, which portion of land includes a burying ground.

Witnesses:

J.B. Clench, Supt. of Indian Affairs

Peter Jones, Wesleyan Missionary

Robert F. Keays, I.D.

Henry C. Hogg, Schoolmaster

First Nations Signatories:

Miskokomon

James Muskununjie

Chicken Muskununjie

John Tommago

Joseph Canotung

Eyawbanse

Captain Thomas

John Mundiway

Crown Signatories:

J.B. Clench, V.S.I.A.

Date document signed

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 146.

13 February 1849, Surrender of Land for Episcopalian Church, Caradoc Township, Middlesex, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1844, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT146, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 2934, 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).