Motifs and Patterns

1 red wax seal on p.2. 8 seals covered with paper. 8 doodems.

Description of Writing/Text

Description of Land Sold:

The people of the Mississauga Nation have agreed to sell unto the English King a tract of land commencing on the east bank of of the south outlet of the River Etobicoke; thence up the same, following the several windings and turnings of the said river to a maple tree blazed on all four sides at the distance of three miles and three quarters, in a straight line from the mouth of the said river; thence north twenty-two degrees west twenty-four miles and one-quarter; then north sixty-eight degrees east fourteen miles; then south twenty-two degrees east twenty-eight miles, more or less, to Lake Ontario; then westerly along the water’s edge of Lake Ontario to the eastern bank of the south outlet of the River Etobicoke being the place of beginning. All together the land mentioned includes 250,880 acres.

Witnesses:

J.W. Williams, Capt. 49th Regt.

Jno. Blackenbury, Ens. 49th Regt.

P. Selby, Asst. Secy. I.A.

J.B. Rousseaux

Crown Signatories:

Wm. Claus, Deputy Superintendent General, on behalf of the Crown.

First Nation’s Signatories:

Chechalk

Quenepenon

Wabukanyne

Okemapenesse

Wabenose

Kebonecence

Osenego

Acheton

Dimensions: 60 × 40 × 0 cm

Condition: Large stain on p.1 left edge. Edges torn, worn, pieces missing through centre and fold lines.

Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

Date document signed

Current Location: Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa

Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: Government Archives Division Reference Indian Treaty Number 038

Link to Institution's Collections Database: www.collectionscanada.gc.ca

Publication History

Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 34-35.

Related items in the GKS: Copy of Johnson's 1787 Toronto Purchase, 23 September 1787 Map of Toronto Purchase, 1 August 1805

GKS Reference Number: 1596

How to Cite this Item

1 August 1805, Toronto Purchase, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1841, Reel T-9938, GAD REF IT 038, https://gks.grasac.org/ (GKS ID: 1596, accessed [date]).

Record Creation Context

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).