Davin WawanosH, Chief. [L.S.]
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Unrrep Counties OF
Essex AND HAMILTON.
Henry P. Chase, of Port Sarnia, in the united counties aforesaid, Interpreter,

maketh oath and saith that he is a subscribing witness to the preceding deed of surrender,
and that the same was duly signed, sealed and delivered in his presence.

H. P. CHASE, I.7.D.

Sworn before me at Port Sarnia,
the 25th day of August, 1852.
Arco. Youne, J.P.

Exrracr from a report of a Committee of the Honourable the Executive Council on
Land Applications, dated 6th September, 1852, approved by His Excellency the —

Governor General in Council on the same day.
On the letter, dated 1st instant, of the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs,

transmitting a deed of surrender from the Chippewa Indians of Port Sarnia to Her
Majesty the Queen of a portion of their reserve adjoining the town plot, for the pur-
pose of the trust being accepted, and entered upon the records in the offices of the
Commissioner of Crown Lands and of the Provincial Registry.

The Committee recommend that the surrender be accepted and entered upon the
records in the offices of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and of the Provincial

Registry.
Certified.
WM. H. LEE,
Actg. C: E. C
To the Honoureble ;
The Provincial Registrar, |
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&e., &e., &e.

Recorded 21st September, 1852. in Lib. C.S., Folio 62:
THOS. AMIOT,

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Deputy Registrar. ;
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No. 70.

This INDENTURE, made the third day of December, in the year of Our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, between Joseph Augustus Woodruff, of the
Town of Niagara, in the County of Lincoln and Province of Canada, Esquire, and
Julia, his wife, of the first part; Warren Claus, of the same piace, Esquire, of the ~
second part; Catherine Ann Margaret Lyons, of the same town, widow, of the third ;
part; Walter Hamilton Dickson, of the same town, Esquire, and Augusta Maria, his :
wife. of the fourth part; William Stewart, of the Township of Oneida, in the County
of Haldimand and Province aforesaid, gentleman, and Catherine Claus, his wife of —
the fifth part; John Bernard Geale, of the said Town of Niagara, a Lieutenant in the @
Regiment of the Royal Canadian Rifles, and Caroline, his wife, of the sixth part; —
and Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, by the Grace of God cf the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, of the seventh -

part.
Whereas the Honourable William Claus, sometime since of the Town of Niagara,

aforesaid, Esquire, deceased, was, ‘n his lifetime, and at the time of his decease,
seized to him and his heirs in fee simple in possession of and in the tracts or par- ~

cels of land, and hereditaments firstly and secondly hereinafter described, and hereby

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Prescott, containing by admeasurement one thousand two hundred acres, be the same
more or less, being lots numbers thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, eighteen ard
twenty, in the third concession of the said Township of Hawkesbury (Eastern Di-
vision) which said one thousand and two hundred acres are butted and bounded
or may be otherwise known as fellows, that is to say: Commencing in front of
the said concession at the north-east angle of each of the said lots respectively:
then about south twenty-five degrees west one hundred and five chains twenty-seven
links, more or less, to the allowance for road in the rear of the said concession; then
rorth sixty-five degrees west nineteen chains, more or less, to the western limit in each
Jot; then north twenty-five degrees east one hundred and five chains twenty-seven
links, more or less, to the allowance for road in front of the said concession; then south
sixty-five degrees east nineteen chains, more or less, to the place of beginning in each
lot. And fourthly, all that parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being on the
south side of the Grand or River Ouse and within the limits of the said grant to the
Six Nations Indians made by His said late Majesty King George the Third, by the
said instrument bearing date the twenty-fifth day of October, in the year one thou-
gand seven hundred and eighty-four, and in the County of Haldimand, containing by
admeasurement fifteen thousand three hundred and sixty acres, more or less, and
which is butted and bounded or may be known as follows, that is to say: Com-
mencing at a stake placed in the Indian line between lots twenty-two and twenty-
three in the Township of Walpole, avout three chains, more or less, from the house
of one Bellows, now or late a settler in Walpole; thence along the Indian line in the
said Township of Walpole and Township of Rainham south sixty-three degrees east
five hundred and eighty chains; thence north twenty-three degrees east or at right
angles to the Indian line between the said Townships to the said Grand River, three
hundred and seventy chains, more or less; thence up the stream of the Grand River
the several courses and windings to a stake on the bank of the said river; thence soutn
twenty-seven degrees west extending to the point of commencement. And all houses,
yuthouses, edifices, buildings, barns, stables, yards, gardens, orchards, fences, ditches,
ways, waters, watercourses, liberties, privileges, easements, protits, commodities,
emoluments, hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever to the said several parcels
or tracts of land and hereditaments hereinbefore described and hereby respectively sur-
rendered and released or otherwise assured or intended so to be belonging or in any-
wise appertaining; and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, yearly
-nd other rents, issues and profits thereof, and of every part and parcel thereof, res-
pectively, and all the estate, right, title, interest, use, trust, inheritance, property,
possession, benefit and equity of redemption, claim and demand whatsoever, both at
law and in equity, of them the said Joseph Augustus Woodruff and Julia, his wife;
Warren Claus, Catherine Ann Margaret Lyons, Walter Hamilton Dickson and
Augusta Maria, his wife; William Stewart and Catherine Claus, his wife; and John
Bernard Geale and Caroline, his wife, and each and every of them, of, in, to or out of
the said several tracts or parcels of land and hereditaments hereinbefore respectively
described and hereby respectively surrendered and released or otherwise assured
er intended so to be, with their and every of their rights, members and appurtenances,
to have and to hold the said lands and _ hereditaments hereinbefore respectively
described and hereby respectively surrendered and released or otherwise assured or
‘ntended so to be with their and every of their rights, members and appurtenances
unto Her said Majesty, Her heirs and successors, to the use of Her said Majesty,
Wer heirs and successors, but nevertheless upon such and the same trusts and for
such and the same ends, intents and purposes as are mentioned, expressed and de-
clared of and concerning the tracts or parcels of land and hereditaments therein
comprised and thereby surrendered and released or intended so to be in and by the
said hereinbefore in part recited indenture of the third day of June, one thousand
eight hundred and forty-four, and to for and upon no other use, trust, intent or
purpose whatsoever; and the said Joseph Augustus Woodruff, so far as relates to
one equal fourth part or share of and in the said several tracts or parcels of land and
hereditaments firstly, secondly and fourthly hereby respectively surrendered and
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released or otherwise assured or intended so to be, with the appurtenances and the
title thereto, doth for himself, his heirs, executors and administrators; and the said
Warren Claus, as well so far as relates to one other equal fourth part or share of and
in the said several tracts or parcels of land and hereditaments firstly, secondly and
fourthly hereby respectively surrendered and released or otherwise assured or

intended so to be, as so far as relates to the entirety of the said tract or parcel of

land thirdly hereby surrendered and released or intended so to be, and their respective
appurtenances and the title to the same respectively, doth hereby for himself, his
heirs, executors and administrators; and the said Catherine Ann Margaret Lyons,
co far as relates to one other equal fourth part or share of and in the said several
tracts or parcels of land and hereditaments firstly, secondly and fourthly hereby
respectively surrendered and released or otherwise assured or intended so to be, and
‘heir appurtenances, and the title thereto, doth hereby for herself, her heirs, execu-
iors and administrators; and the said Walter Hamilton Dickson, so far as relates
to one equal third part of one other equal fourth part of the said several tracts or
varcels of land and hereditaments firstly, secondly and fourthly hereby respectively
surrendered and released or otherwise assured or intended so to be, and their
appurtenances, and the title thereto, and so far as relates to the acts and deeds
of himself and the said Augusta Maria, his wife, and of all persons claiming or
to claim by, from, through, under or in trust for him, her or them in respect of
-he same one-third part of the said fourth part, but not further or other-
wise, doth hereby, for himself, his heirs, executors and administrators, and
the said William Stewart so far as relates to one other equal third part of the
said one other equal fourth part of the said several tracts or parcels of land and
hereditaments firstly, secondly and fourthly hereby respectively surrendered and
released or otherwise assured or intended so to be, and their appurtenances, and the
title thereto, and so far as relates to the acts and deeds of himself and the said
Catherine Claus, his wife, and of all other persons claiming or to claim by, from,
through, under or in trust for him, her or them, in respect of the same, one third
»art of the said fourth part, but not further or otherwise, doth hereby for himself
nis heirs, executors and administrators; and the said John Bernard Geale, so far as
relates to one other equal third part of the said one other equal fourth part of the
said several tracts or parcels of land and hereditaments firstly, secondly and fourthly
hereinbefore respectively surrendered and released or otherwise assured or intended
co to be, and their appurtenances and the title thereto, doth hereby for himself his
l.eirs, executors and administrators, covenant, promise and agree with and to Her
caid Majesty, Her heirs and successors, that they the said Joseph Augustus Woodruff,
and Julia, his wife, Warren Claus, Catherine Ann Margaret Lyons, Walter Hamilton
Dickson, and Augusta Maria, his wife, William Stewart and Catherine Claus, his
wife, and John Bernard Geale and Caroline, his wife, now have in themselves, o*
come or one of them now have or hath in themselves, himself, or herself, good right,
full power and lawful and absolute authority to grant, surrender, remise, release
end yield up the said several tracts or parcels of land and hereditaments hereby
respectively surrendered, remised, released and yielded up, or otherwise assured or
‘ntended so to be, with the appurtenances unto and to the use of Her Majesty,
Her heirs and successors, upon the trusts and in manner aforesaid, according to
the true intent and meaning of these presents. And that it shall and may he
‘awful to and for Her said Majesty, Her heirs and successors, from time to time and
at all times hereafter, peaceably and quietly to enter into and upon, hold, occupy,
possess and enjoy the said several tracts or parcels of land and hereditaments hereby
respectively surrendered and released, or otherwise assured or intended so to be,
with the appurtenances, and to have, receive and take the rents, issues and
profits thereof, and, every part thereof, respectively, to and for Her and their own use
and benefit, without any lawful let, suit, trouble, denial, claim, demand, interruption
or eviction whatsoever, of or by them, the said Joseph Augustus Woodruff, and J ulia,
his wife, Warren Claus, Catherine Ann Margaret Lyons, Walter Hamilton Dickson,
and Augusta Maria, his wife, William Stewart, and Catherine Claus, his wife, and

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John Bernard Geale, and Caroline, his wife, or any or elther of them, their or any or
either of their heirs, or of, from or by any other person or persons whomsoever; and
that free and clear, and freely and clearly, and absolutely acquitted, exonerated, released,
and forever discharged, or otherwise by them the said Joseph Augustus Woodruff, and
Julia, his wife, Warren Claus, Catherine Ann Margaret Lyons, Walter Hamilton Dick-
son, and Augusta Maria, his wife, William Stewart and Catherine Claus, his wife, and
John Bernard Geale, and Caroline, his wife, their or some or one of their heirs, execu-
tors and administrators, well and sufficiently saved, defended, kept harmless’ and
indemnified of, from and against all estates, titles, troubles, charges, debts and incum-
brances whatsoever, either already or to be hereafter had, made, executed, occasioned
and suffered, by means of or by the default, consent or procurement of the said J oseph
Augustus Woodruff, and Julia, his wife, Warren Claus, Catherine Ann Margaret Lyons,
Walter Hamilton Dickson, and Augusta Maria, his wife, William Stewart, and Cathe-
rine Claus, his wife, and John Bernard Geale, and Caroline, his wife, or any or either
of them, their or any or either of their heirs, or by any other person or persons whom-
soever; and further, that they, the said Joseph Augustus Woodruff, and Julia, his wife,
Warren Claus, Catherine Ann Margaret Lyons, Walter Hamilton Dickson, and Augusta
Maria, his wife, William Stewart, and Catherine, his wife, and John Bernard Geale,
and Caroline, his wife, and each and every of them, their and each and every of their
heirs, and all and every other person or persons having or claiming or who shall or may
hereafter have or claim any estate, right, title, interest, inheritance, use, trust, property,
claim or demand whatsoever, at law or in equity, of, in, to or out of the said several

any part thereof, shall and will at all times hereafter, upon every reasonable request,
and at the proper costs and charges of Her Majesty, Her heirs or successors, or the per-
son or persons for the time being entitled to the freehold and inheritance of the same,
make, do and execute, or cause and procure to be made, done and executed, all such fur-
ther and other lawful and reasonable acts, deeds, things and assurances in the law what-
soever for the further, better, more perfectly and absolutely surrendering, releasing
and assuring of the said several tracts or parcels of land and hereditaments hereby
respectively surrendered and released, or otherwise assured or intended so to be, and
every part thereof, respectively, unto and to the use of Her said Majesty Her heirs and
successors, or the person or persons entitled to the reversion and inheritance of the same
in manner aforesaid and according to the true intent and meaning of these presents
as by Her Majesty, Her heirs or successors, or the person or persons aforesaid, his, Her
or their counsel in the law, shall be advised and required. And the said Walter Hamil-
ton Dickson doth hereby for himself and for the said Augusta Maria, his wife, and for
their respective heirs, executors and administrators, further covenant, promise and
agree with and to Her said Majesty, Her heirs and successors, that he, the said Walter
Hamilton Dickson and Augusta Maria, his wife, or the survivor of them, shall and will,
upon payment to him, her or them, respectively, of all costs, charges and expenses
legally or properly incurred, laid out, disbursed or expended, taxable as between party
and party, in or about the same or any of them, forthwith enter satisfaction or cause
and procure satisfaction to be entered upon the said judgment so obtained by them the
said Walter Hamilton Dickson and Augusta Maria, his wife, against the said Henry
Grose as aforesaid, so and in such manner as that the same shall cease to be a charge
or incumbrance upon the said Henry Grose, his heirs, executors or administrators, or
upon the said lands and hereditaments respectively surrendered and released or intended
so to be, or any part thereof; and also, shall and will forthwith discontinue by rule of
court or otherwise as may be necessary to discharge the same, all and every other the
action and actions so commenced against the tenants or occupiers of the said several

released, or intended so to be, or any of them, or any part or parts of them or any of
them, whose names are mentioned and set forth in the schedule hereunder written or

hereunto annexed, and all and every other action and actions, if any, now commenced

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or depending against any person or persons whomsoever, in relation to the same lands
of any of them, or any part or parts thereof, so that the same actions and each and every
of them may henceforth cease, determine and be put an end to.

In Wrrxess Wuerror, the said parties to these presents have hereunto set their
hands and affixed their seals the day and year first above written.

Signed, sealed and delivered by the

within named Joseph Augustus JosEpH AuGusTUs WoopruFF, [L.S.]
Woodruff and Julia, his wife, JULIA WoopRUFF, [L.S.]
Warren Claus, Catherine Arn W. CLAvs, [L.8.]
Margaret Lyons, Walter Hamil- CATHERINE A. M. Lyons, [L.S.]
ton Dickson, and Augusta Maria, WALTER H. Dickson, [L.S.]
his wife, William Stewart and Augusta M. DIcKson, [L.S.]
Catherine Claus, his wife, and WILLIAM STEWART, [L.S.]
Jonn Bernard Geale and Caro- CATHERINE C, STEWART, [L.8.]
line, his wife, in the presence J. BERNARD GEALE, Pes
of CAROLINE GEALE, [L.8.]
Ropert J. Turner, Barrister-at-Law,

Toronto.
Wituiam Dickson, Jr., Gentleman,

Niagara.

The schedule referred to in the within written indenture containing a list of the
several actions of ejectment brought by the within named Walter Hamilton Dickson
and Augusta Maria, his wife, against the several persons hereinafter named: for the
recovery of the undermentioned lands, that is to say :—

In tHe TowNsHip oF INNISFIL.

Defendants’ Names. Number of Lot and Concession.
Henry Grose). ..0..6.0.0 0.0450. Part of lot umbergi am tae 4th.
Jonathan Irwin.............. .Part of lot number 19 in tne same,
John Bannerman............ .-Part of lot number 21 in the same.
George Read.. ............ .. Part of lot number 19 in the same. ,
John Moore............ .. .. -Part of lot number 18 in the same.
Jane Spink... 4) oss. 24) ae oo. Partrofigheysameilorgs '
George McGurther.. .. .. .. .. .. Part of lot number 16 in the same.
Hugh Trueman............ .. Part of the same lot.
Irwin Moore.. ..0.04. Ps. oo 00) Bart of the samevlot.
Wellington Wilson.. .. ........ . Part of lot number 14 in the same.

Ix tHe TowNsuie or HAWKESBURY—EASTERN DIVISION.

Defendants’ Names. Number of Lot ang Concession.

Antoine Bellisle and Francis Des-

ghau.). ssihy no telaWartele: we ald .oAduOt, cum ber i6 tae teem

Patrick Mullen. ...:o-0-+2s++-+--- Lot number, 19/imjtaensthy

Michael Bellisle.. ..-+ 2.0.4 +.!-- Lot.number 17 in) tessa,

Andrew Kinveel.. ........- -. ..Lot number 25 in the 5th.

Richard Kirkner........ +... -+ Lot number 18 inthe same,

Edward St. Denis, « ... asl. «+ (»+) uot number. 14 amie ean

Joseph Clemo.. ........ .. .. Lot number 15 in the same.

Lewis Casneaus . diene selena see! tow ite L0H: umber lems tas

George Dockstader and Geo. All- Ww
brightsh 6 oie aes. oe bee Lot number 1) inthe sana, q

William Mark.. ........ ..... . Lot number 12 in the same.

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We do hereby certify that on this third day of December, one thousand eigh*
hundred and fifty-two, at the Town of Niagara, in the County of Lincoln, in: the
Province of Canada, the within deed was duly executed in the presence of us by
Augusta Maria, the wife of Walter Hamilton Dickson, one of the grantors therein
aamed, and that the said Augusta Maria, at the said time and place, being examined
by us apart from her husband, did appear to give her consent to depart with her estate
in the lands mentioned in the said deed freely and voluntarily, and without coercion

ar fear of coercion on the part of her husband, or any other person or persons what-
soever.

E. McDOUGAL, J.P.
JOHN SIMPSON, J.P.

We do hereby certify that on the thirteenth day of December, one thousand eight
bundred and fifty-two, at the City of Hamilton, in the County of Wentworth, in the
Province of Canada, the within deed was duly executed in the presence of us by Cath-
erine Claus, the wife of William Stewart, one of the grantors therein named, and that
the said Catherine Claus, at the said time and place, being examined by us apart from
ler husband, did appear to give her consent to depart with her estate in the lands
mentioned in the said deed freely and voluntarily, and without coercion or fear of
coercion on the part of her husband or of any other person or persons whatsoever.

G. H. ARMSTRONG, J.P.
JOHN WINER, J.P.

Received the day and year first within written, of and from the Queen’s Most
Fixcellent Majesty, by payment of the Honourable Robert Bruce, Her Majesty’s Super-
intendent General of Indian Affairs, the sum of five thousand pounds, in the propor-
tions in the within written indenture mentioned, being the consideration money

within expressed to be paid to us.

Witness:
Ropert 1. TURNER, |
Barrister-at-Law, Toronto.
Wituiam Dickson, Jr., £5,000.
Gentleman, Niagara.

CATHERINE A. M. LYONS,
WILLIAM STEWART,

J. B. GEALE,

JOSEPH AUGUSTUS WOODRUFY,
W. CLAUS, 3
WALTER H. DICKSON.

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County oF HALDIMAND.

I certify a memorial hereof relating to lands situate in the County of Haldimand
is entered and registered on the first day of January, A.D., 1853, at ten minutes past
ten o’clock a.m., in the register of the Township of Oneida, Liber A, No. 1, folios 42,
43; and also that on the same day, at twelve o’clock, ncon, the same memorial was
also entered and registered in the register of the Township of North Cayuga, Liber A,

No. 1, folios 34, 35.
AGNEW J. FARRELE, Registrar.

 Teertify that a memorial of the within indenture of deed was duly recorded in the
registry office of the County of Prescott (as far as relates to lands in the Township of
East Hawkesbury, in said County of Prescott) at the hour of four a.m. on Wednes-
day, the twenty-sixth day of January, A.D.. 1853, in Book No. 18, pages 251, 252, 253
and 254: number of the memorial, 6323.

G. D. REED,
Registrar of the County of Prescott.

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A memorial hereof is recorded in the registry office for the County of Simcoe on

the 22nd day of December, A.D., 1852, at one o’clock p.m., in Liber T., folios 474, 475,
476, 477, 478, 479, 480, 481 482, 483, 484, 485, 486, 487, 488, 489, 490, 491, 492, 492,
494 and 495; memorial No. 11,602. .

GEORGE LOUNT,
Regr. Co. Simcoe.

PROVINCIAL REGISTRAR’S OFFICE.
QuEBEC, 11th June, 1853.

I hereby certify that the within deed of surrender hath this day been entered
upon the records of this office in Lib.: “C.S. Surrender to the Crown,” Folio 78, ete.

THO. AMIOT,
Depy. Provl. Regr.

ING? (Ae

Know ALL Men By THESE Presents that we, Joseph White, Matthew Greyeyes,
William Clarke, Alexander Clarke, James Clarke, Joseph Warrow, Francis Parke and
Mathias Splitlog, Chiefs and Principal Men of the Wyandott Indians residing in the
Township of Anderdon, in the County of Essex and Province of Canada, in Council
assembled, claiming to be possessed of the sole and exclusive right and title to a cer-

tain triangular tract of land in or adjoining to the Town of Sandwich, by virtue of |

the reservation contained in a deed or grant to His late Majesty George the Thiru,
executed by the principal village and War Chiefs of the Ottawa, Chippewa, Pottowatto-
mee and Huron Indians of Detroit, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety,

wherein the tract so reserved is thus described “as beginning at the mouth of the

Riviére au Jarvais, commonly called Knagg’s Oreek, running up along border of the
streight to the Huron church and one hundred and twenty arpents in depth,” do here-

hy surrender and yield up unto Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, Her heirs —

and successors, all our right, title, interest, claim, property and demand whatsoever,
both at law and equity, of, in and to that certain part or tract of land aforesaid, situate
lying and being in or adjoining to the town of Sandwich commencing on Detroit
street and running along the River Detroit to the Huron church line, and then along
« small rivulet to a bridge in the Queen’s Highway to Detroit street; then along De-
txoit street to the place of beginning, with all and singular the appurtenances, privil-
eges, advantages and hereditaments unto the said premises appertaining or in anywise
belonging, unto Her said Majesty, Her heirs and successors forever, to the end and pur-
pose that Her said Majesty, Her heirs and successors, may be graciously pleased to
order and direct that the said parcel or tract of land be first valued and then disposed
cf by bargain and sale, and the monies arising therefrom to be appropriated to the use
and benefit of the said Indians and for no other purpose whatsoever.

Ix Testimony WHEREOF, we, the said Chiefs and Principal Men of the said Wy-
andott Indians have hereunto set our names and seals at Anderdon, Canada West, the
nineteenth day of July, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-

three,

Signed and sealed in our pre- his

sence, being first read and fully JosepH WHITE, x [L.S.]

explained : Ts his
THomas KING, MattHew GrRAy EYES, x [L.8.]

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WiLuam CLARKE, WILLIAM CLAREE, bie SSA
Interpreter. ALEXR. CLARKE, [L.8.]
JAMES CLARKE, [L.8.]J

JOSEPH WARROW, [L.S.x

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life on or about the eleventh day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thou-
sand eight hundred and twenty six, leaving John Johnson Claus, of Niagara, afore-
said, Esquire, his eldest son and heir-at-law. And whereas, the said William Claus,
at and previous to his decease, held the office of Deputy Superintendent of Indian
Affairs, and was also trustee of the Six Nations Indians, and the said J ohn Johnson
Claus, after his decease, succeeded to the said office of his said father as trustee, and the
said William Claus in the capacity of Deputy Superintendent or trustee, and the said
John Johnson Claus in the capacity of trustee as it is alleged, severally became
indebted to His Majesty King George the Fourth in right of His Crown as trustee on
behalf of the Six Nations Indians in large sums of money, and the said John Johnson
Qiaus being desirous to satisfy and discharge the said debt, the said John Johnson
Claus and Catherine Claus, deceased, the mother of the said John Johnson Claus, and
widow of the said William Claus, agreed and determined to convey and assure unto
certain trustees on behalf of the said Six Nations Indians, not only the tracts or parcels
of land and hereditaments firstly hereinafter described and hereby surrendered and
released, or intended so to be, with their appurtenances, but also certain other lands
and hereditaments, secondly and thirdly hereinafter described and hereby surren-
dered and released, or intended so to be, situate in the Township of East Hawkesbury,
in the County of Prescott, respectively, belonging to the said Catherine Claus, and
as it was then supposed and believed to him the said John Johnson Claus as such
heir-at-law as aforesaid.

And whereas, in pursuance and part performance of the said determination and
in order to carry the same into effect, by a certain indenture of bargain and sale,
pearing date on or about the sixth day of June, in the year of Our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-one, and made or expressed to be made between the said
John Johnson Claus, therein described as eldest surviving son and heir-at-law of the
said William Claus of the one part, and the Honourable James Baby, since deceased,
the Honourable John Henry Dunn and the Honourable George Herchmer Markland
therein respectively described, of the other part it is witnessed, that the said John
Johnson Claus, for the nominal consideration therein mentioned, did grant, bargain,
sell, alien, release and convey unto the said James Baby, John Henry Dunn and
George Herchmer Markland, their executors, administrators and assigns, al] that
parce] or tract of land and hereditaments, situate, lying and being in the Township
of Innisfil, in the County of Simcoe, containing by admeasurement nine hundred
acres, more or less, being the lands and hereditaments therein and firstly hereinafter
described, and hereby surrendered and released, or intended so to be, with their and
every of their appurtenances, to hold the said parcel or tract of land, with all and
singular the hereditaments and appurtenances thereto belonging unto the said James
Baby, John Henry Dunn and George Herchmer Markland, their executors, adminis-
trators and assigns.

And whereas, in pursuance and further performance of the said determination,
and in order to carry the same into effect by a certain other indenture of bargain
and sale also bearing date on or about the said sixth day of June, in the said year
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and made or expressed to be made between
the said John Johnson Claus therein also described as eldest son and heir-at-law cf
the said William Claus, as aforesaid, of the one part, and the said James Baby, John
Henry Dunn and George Herchmer Markland of the other part, it is witnessed that
the said John Johnson Claus for the nominal consideration therein mentioned, did
grant, bargain, sell, alien, release and convey unto the said James Baby, John Henry
Dunn and George Herchmer Markland, their executors, administrators and assigns,
all that the parcel of land and hereditaments situate, lymg and being in the Town-
ship of Hawkesbury (Eastern Division), in the County of Prescott, in the then Ottawa
District, containing by admeasurement two thousand and eight hundred acres of
land, being the lands and hereditaments therein and secondly thereinafter described,
and hereby released or intended to be, with their and every of their appurtenances,

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to hold the same parcel or tract of land with all and singular the hereditaments and ~

appurtenances thereto belonging unto the said James Baby, John Henry Dunn and
George Herchmer Markland, and their executors, administrators and assigns.

And whereas, in pursuance and further performance of the said determination, —

and in order to carry the same into effect by a certain other indenture of bargain
and sale bearing date on or about the sixth day of June, in the said year one thou-
sand eight hundred and thirty-one, and made or expressed to be made between the
said Catherine Claus therein described as the widow of the said William Claus of the
one part, and the said James Baby, John Henry Dunn and George Herchmer Mark-
land of the other part, it is witnessed that the said Catherine Claus, for the nominal
eonsideration therein mentioned, did grant, bargain, sell, alien, release and convey
unto the said James Baby, John Henry Dunn and George. Herchmer Markland,
their executors, administrators and assigns, all that parcel or tract of land and
hereditaments situate, lying and being in the Township of Hawkesbury (Eastern
Division), containing by admeasurement twelve hundred acres of land, more or less,
being the land therein and thirdly hereinafter described and hereby surrendered
and released, or intended so to be, with their and every of their appurtenances, to
hold the said parcel or tract. of land with all and singular the hereditaments and
appurtenances thereto belonging unto the said James Baby, John Henry Dunn and
George Herchmer Markland, their executors, administrators and assigns, and in each
«¢ the said three several hereinbefore in part recited indentures was contained a
declaration by the said James Baby, John Henry Dunn and George Herchmer Mark-
land. that the said lands and hereditaments therein respectively comprised were
respectively conveyed to them in trust, for the sole use, benefit and behoof of the
Six Nations Indians, settled by the authority of His then late Majesty King George

the Third upon the Ouse or Grand River, in the said then Province of Upper —

“anada, and their posterity forever.

And that all sums of money and the interest arising from the absolute sale or
disposal of the said parcels or tracts of land in the same indentures respectively
described, or of any part thereof respectively, or from the rents or profits of the
same respectively, or any part thereof respectively, which should come into the
hands of them the said James Baby, John Henry Dunn and George Herchmer
Markland, their executors, adminstrators or assigns, under and by virtue of any
sale. lease or demise of the said respective parcels or tracts of land made by them
the said James Baby, John Henry Dunn and George Herchmer Markland, their
executors, administrators or assigns, under and by virtue of the said several inden-
tures, should be and the same were thereby respectively declared to be by them the
said James Baby, John Henry Dunn and George Herchmer Markland, their execu-
tors, administrators and assigns, held in trust as aforesaid to and for the sole use
and benefit of the said Six Nations Indians, and their posterity forever.

And whereas, by a certain other indenture bearing date on or about the third
day of June, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and
made or expressed to be made between the said John Henry Dunn and George
Tlerchmer Markland of the first part, and Her said Majesty Queen Victoria of the
second part, after reciting the said three several hereinbefore in part recited iniden-
tures as or to the purport and effect herein before recited, and reciting the death of
the said James Baby, and that it was expedient that the said estate should be vested
‘> the Crown for the more convenient administration of the trusts in the therein-
before mentioned indentures declared, it is witnessed that the said John Henry Dunn
and George Herchmer Markland, for the nominal consideration therein mentioned,
did grant, surrender, yield up, release and convey unto Her said Most Excellent
Majesty Queen Victoria, and to Her heirs and successors, all the estate, right, title,
interest, property, claim and demand whatsoever, both at law and in equity, which
they, the said John Henry Dunn and George Herchmer Markland, then had by
virtue of the said several hereinbefore in part recited indentures of bargain and sale,
of, in, to and out of the said lands and hereditaments in the said several hereinbefore
in part recited indentures, and firstly, secondly, and thirdly, thereinafter described and

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hereby released or surrendered or intended so to be, with their and every of their ap-
purtenances, to hold the same with their appurtenances unto Her said Majesty Queen
Victoria, Her heirs and successors forever, in trust nevertheless for the sole use, benefit
and behoof of the Indians known as the Six Nations Indians settled upon the Ouse or
Grand River aforesaid, and their posterity forever, and to apply the monies arising
from the sale or demise of the said parcels of land or any part thereof, or the rents,
issues and profits of the same, or any part thereof, to the sole and only use, benefit and
behoof of the said Six Nations Indians settled upon the Ouse or Grand River, and
their posterity forever.

And whereas by a certain deed poll or instrument in writing bearing date on or
about the third day of August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, under
the hands and seals of divers of the Sachems and chief warriors of the Six Nations
Indians inhabiting the lands situate on the Grand or River Ouse, in the County of
Haldimand, in the then Province of Upper Canada, after reciting that His then late
Majesty King George the Third did, by a certain instrument bearing date the
twenty-fifth day of October, in tne year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four,
under the hand and seal of Sir Frederick Haldimand, then Governor of Quebec, allot
and grant unto them the said Sachers and chief warriors of the said Six Nations
Indians on the banks of the said river running into Lake Erie six miles deep each
side of the said river, beginning at Lake Erie and extending in that proportion to
the head of tue said river; and that the said William Glaus had been for the then
last thirty years their trustee, and had during all that time conducted and managed
their affairs with great advantage to their interests, and made’ profitably available their
money without any compensation from them, and that they, the said Sachems and
chief warriors, willing to attribute such disinterested conduct to feelings which had
characterized his ancestors, Sir William Johnson, and Sir John Johnson, towards
their nations, besides his father, who served with them during the whole of the
French war, as well as that of the Rebellion, and who together with himself had
resided with and amongst them, and guarded their interests with parental solicitude,
wherefore they, the said Sachems and chief warriors, had that day in a general
council of their nations taken into consideration the long, arduous and faithful services
of their said trustee, and to pay and satisfy his just claims upon them and as the
most convenient to themselves, and in manifestation of their esteem and gratitude
for the services of him and his ancestors, who had always shown themselves their
steady friends and best advisers, unanimously determined to surrender to His then
Majesty King George the Fourth to and for the use of the said William Claus, his
heirs and assigns forever, the tracts and country therein described in order that
the same might be confirmed to the said William Claus, his heirs and assigns, by Let-
ters Patent under the Great Seal of the said Province.

It is witnessed, that for the said several good causes and weighty considerations
of claim of the said William Claus upon them, they, the said Sachems and chief
warriors, did surrender, relinquish and yield unto His said Majesty, His heirs and
successors, all that tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being on the south side
of the river, and within the limits of their said in part recited grant in the County
of Haldimand, in the then District of Niagara, and Province of Upper Canada, con-
taining by admeasurement fifteen thousand three hundred and sixty acres, more or
less, being tne lands and hereditaments therein and fourthly hereinafter described
and hereby surrendered and released, or intended so to be, with their appurtenances,
for the express purpose and to the intent that the same and every part thereof might
be confirmed by Letters Patent from His then Majesty to the said William Claus, his
heirs and assigns forever.

And whereas, some time after the decease of the said William Claus, and subse-
quently to the execution of the said several hereinbefore in part recited indentures of
the sixth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, the sixth day of
June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and the sixth day of June, one

| thousand eight nundred and thirty-one, it was found and discovered by the said trustees
| on behalf of the said Six Nations Indians that he had duly made and published his

last will and testament, in writing, duly executed and attested for the devise of
lands of inheritance, and bearing date on or about the thirteenth day of July, in the
year one thousand eignt hundred and twenty-six, and after certain devises and
bequests therein contained, not affecting the lands and hereditaments hereinafter
described and hereby surrendered and released or intended so to be, and amongst
other devises. the devise of certain lots of land to his grandchildren, Catherine Claus
Geale, now the said Catherine Claus Stewart, Augusta Maria Geale, now the said
Augusta Maria Dickson, Julia Marianne Geale, since deceased, and the said John
Bernard Geale, nad thereby given and devised all the rest and residue of his real as
well as personal estate, which he might die seized of or possessed of in reversion,
remainder or contingency unto his wife, Catherine, in trust to sell or dispose of all
or any part or parcel thereof for the payment of his debts, and to use and enjoy in such
a manner as in her prudence and discretion would be most conducive to her own com-
fort and that of her children and grandchildren during the term of her natural life, and
at her decease the said testator willed, devised and bequeathed all or any such real or
personal property as might remain undisposed of to each of his sons, the said John
Johnson Claus and Warren Claus, and each of his daughters, Catherine Ann Mar-
earet Geale (now the said Catherine Ann Margaret Lyons), and Julia Caroline, and
their respective heirs and assigns, to be equally divided among them, share and
share alike, and to take the same as tenants in common; and in the event of his
wife surviving his said daughter Catherine, or if the said Warren Claus or Julia
Caroline Claus, or either of them, should die before their mother, unmarried and
without issue, then the ‘said testator willed and devised such portion of his real or
personal estate as all or either of his said children would have been entitled to under
his said will unto his grandenildren, the son and daughter of his said daughter Cathe-
rine Geale in his said will named, or such as might be living at the decease of his wife,
to take and hold the same to them and their respective heirs and assigns as tenants
in common.

And whereas the said William Claus, by a codicil to his said will duly executed
and attested as aforesaid, and bearing date on or about the nintn day of September
in the said year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, after reciting therein
that the said Principal Chiefs of the Six Nations Indians residing upon the lands
appropriated to their use upon the Grand River, in the County of Haldimand, had
by a solemn act in their council resolved to grant to nim and his heirs and assigns
fifteen thousand acres of land, being part of the land so reserved to their use, and
had by their deed executed in the usual form granted the same to him, the said
testator, by yielding and surrendering up the same to His then Majesty for the pur-
pose of being regranted to him, the said testator, by His then Majesty, under tne Great
Seal of the Province in fee simple, he, the said testator, did thereby give and devise
the said parcel or tract of land to the same persons, his beloved wite and children, to
whom he had devised all the rest and residue of his real estate in his will, and tnere-
unto annexed for the same uses and purposes and limitations to them, their heirs and
assigns, as therein mentioned, as tenants in common.

And whereas the said testator departed this life on or about the eleventh day of
November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, without having
altered or revoked his said will, save as appears by the said codicil and without
having altered or revoked the said codicil; and whereas the said Julia Caroline
Claus departed this life on or about the eleventh day of February, in the year one
thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, unmarried and without isssue, leaving the
said Caroline Claus, ner mother, her surviving; and the said Julia Marianne Geale
departed this life on or about the sixteenth day of March, one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-six, unmarried, and also leaving the said Catherine Claus, her
grandmother, her surviving; and whereas the said Catherine Claus duly made and
published ‘ner Jast will and testament in writing duly executed and attested for the
devise of lands of inheritance, and bearing date on or about the seventh day of April,
in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, and did thereby will and devise
unto her son, the said Warren Claus, his heirs and assigns for ever, as well all that

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landed estate of which she might die seized or possessed of in the then Province of Lower
Canada, therein particularly mentioned, as all other the landed estate of which she
might die seized or possessed of, in reversion, remainder or contingency, and all other
the personal property or estate in the then Province of Upper or Lower Canada, the said
testatrix willed, devised and bequeathed unto her son, the said Warren Claus, to him,
his heirs and assigns for ever, except such personal estate as was thereinafter more par-
ticularly described; and whereas the said testatrix departed this life on or about the
first day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty; and whereas
no grant of the said lands and hereditaments comprised in the said hereinbefore in part
recited deed poll or instrument in writing was ever made by His late Majesty King
George the Fourth, or by His Royal Successor King William the Fourth, nor hath any
such been made by Her present Majesty, either to the said William Claus or to any of
the persons parties hereto claiming under the said hereinbefore in part recited will and
codicil of the said William Claus; and whereas under or by virtue of the said hereinbe-
fore in part recited will and codicil of the said William Claus and the said hereinbe-
in part recited will and codicil of the said Catherine Claus and in consequence of the re-
spective limitations in the said several hereinbefore in part recited indentures of the sixth
day of June, cne thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, the sixth day of June one thou-
sand eight hundred and thirty-one, and the sixth day of June, one thousand eight hun-
dred and thirty-one, of the said lands therein respectively comprised, having been sever-
ally to the use of the said James Baby, John Henry Dunn and George Herchmer Mark-
lend, their executors, administrators and assigns. instead of to the use of them, their
heirs and assigns, it is apprehended not only that the said John Johnson Claus had no
further or other right or interest in the said hereditaments firstly and secondly herein-
after described and hereby surrendered or intended so to be than in one undivided fourth
pert thereof, but that under the several limitations aforesaid a life estate only as to the
same hereditaments, and the said hereditaments thirdly hereinafter described and here-
by surrendered or intended so to be, became vested in the said James Baby, John Henry
Dunn and George Herchmer Markland and consequently that the estate and interest
of Her Majesty, in the same hereditaments respectively under and by virtue of the said
hereinbefore in part recited indenture or surrender and release of the third day of June,
one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, became defective and curtailed to an estate
therein for the lives of the said John Henry Dunn and George Herchmer Markland as
such surviving trustees as aforesaid and the life of the survivor of them.

And whereas the said Catherine Ann Margaret Geale, prior to the decease of the
said testator, became a widow, and she afterwards intermarried with and became the
wife of John Lyons, who also departed this life, leaving the said Catherine Ann Mar-
garet Lyons, his widow him surviving, and the daughters of the said Catherine Ann
Margaret Lyons, that is to say, the said Augusta Maria, the wife of the said Walter
Hamilton Dickson, and Catherine Claus, the wife of the said William Stewart, after
the decease of the said testator respectively, intermarried with the said Walter Hamilton
Dickson and William Stewart.

And whereas the said Warren Claus and Catherine Ann Margaret Lyons having
severally claimed to be entitled to two undivided fourth parts, and the said William
Stewart and Catherine his wife, and J ohn Bernard Geale having severally claimed
with the said Walter Hamilton Dickson and August Maria, his wife, to be entitled to
one other undivided fourth part of the said lands and hereditaments firstly and secondly
Lereinafter described and hereby surrendered and released or intended so to be, agreed
ard determined to convey their respective rights and interests therein unto the said
Walter Hamilton Dickson and Augusta Maria, his wife, and the said Walter Hamilton
Dickson, respectively, in order to enable them more conveniently and at less expense
to litigate their claims in respect of the same, and it was agreed that the said Walter
Hamilton Dickson and Augusta Maria, his wife, and Walter Hamilton Dickson, should
respectively stand seized and possessed of the said lands in trust for the said parties
respectively and for their respective heirs and assigns, and accordingly by two several
indentures, one thereof bearing date on or about the eighth day of May, in the year one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and made or expressed to be made between the said
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William Stewart and Catherine Claus, his wife, of the first part, and the said Walter
Hamilton Dickson and Augusta Maria, his wife, of the second part, and the other there-
of bearing date on or about the seventh day of May in the same year, and made or
expressed to be made between the said Catherine Ann Margaret Lyons and John Ber-
nard Geale, of the first part, and the said Walter Hamilton Dickson and Augusta Maria,
his wife, of the second part, the tracts or parcels of land and hereditaments firstly and
secondly hereinafter described and hereby released or surrendered or intended so to be,
with their appurtenances, were duly conveyed and assured unto and to the use of the
said Walter Hamilton Dickson and Augusta Maria, his wife, their heirs and assigns,
and under and by virtue of a certain deed poll under the hand and seal of the said
Warren Claus, and bearing date on or about the sixth day of December, in the year of
Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, the right and interest of the said
Warren Claus of and in the tracts or parcels of land and hereditaments firstly and
secondly hereinafter described and hereby surrendered and released, or intended so to
be, became vested in the said Walter Hamilton Dickson, his heirs and assigns, and
whereas some time in or about the month of May, in the year of Our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-one, the said Walter Hamilton Dickson and Augusta Maria,
his wife, commenced several actions at law in Her Majesty’s Court of Queen’s Bench
at Toronto against the parties in possession of the said tracts or parcels of land and
hereditaments firstly and secondly hereinafter described and hereby surrendered and
released or intended so to be, in order to recover possession of the same respectively,
the particulars of which said actions are set fortk, in the schedule hereunder written or
hereunto annexed, and in one of the said actions entitled John Doe, on the demise of

the said Walter Hamilton Dickson and Augusta Maria his wife, against Henry Grose,’

judgment was recovered for three-fourths parts of lot number twenty-one in the fourth
concession of the said Township of Innisfil but no judgment hath hitherto been entered
in any other of the said actions.

And whereas by a certain indenture bearing date on or about the twenty-third day

of March now last past, and made or expressed to be made between the said John John- .

son Claus, by the name of John Claus, and the said Joseph Augustus Woodruff, for the
considerations therein mentioned, the estate and interest of the said John’ Johnson
Claus of and in the said lands and hereditaments firstly, secondly and fourthly herein-
after described and hereby surrendered and released or intended so to be became abso-
lutely vested in the said Joseph Augustus Woodruff, his heirs and assigns; and where-
as, in order to put an end to all future litigation as well in respect of the said tracts or
parcels of land and hereditaments firstly and secondly hereinafter described and hereby
surrendered and released or otherwise assured or intended so to be as in respect of the
lands and hereditaments in the same township late belonging to the said Catherine, the
wife of the said William Claus, being the lands and hereditaments thirdly hereinafter
described and hereby surrendered and released or intended so to be, and also as to the
said tract of land, containing fifteen thousand three hundred and sixty acres of land,
or thereabouts, mentioned and comprised in the hereinbefore in part recited deed poll
or instrument in writing, bearing date the third day of August, in the year of Our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, being the lands and hereditaments
fourthly hereinafter described and hereby surrendered and released, or other-
wise assured or intended so to be, as also to correct the limitation im the said
several hereinbefore in part recited indentures of the sixth day of June,
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, the sixth day of June, one thou-
sand eight hundred and thirty-one, and the sixth day of June, one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-one, it has been agreed on behalf of Her Majesty, and by and
between the said Joseph Augustus Woodruff, Warren Claus and Oatherine Ann
Margaret Lyons, Walter Hamilton Dickson and Augusta Maria, his wife, William
Stewart and Catherine Claus, his wife, and John Bernard Geale, that they should
severally execute the surrender and Perse and also the remise and release herein-
after contained, in consideration whereof it was agreed that the said several sums of
money hereinafter mentioned, amounting in the whole to the sum of five thousand
pounds, should be paid to them by or on behalf of Her Majesty; and it was also

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agreed that the said Walter Hamilton Dickson should enter satisfaction on the said
judgment so obtained in the said action of ejectment, and discontinue the said other
actions so commenced as aforesaid, upon the terms hereinafter mentioned, and should
enter into the covenant hereinafter contained with respect to the same. And
whereas in pursuance and performance of the said agreement on behalf of Her
Majesty there hath this day been paid by the Honourable Robert Bruce, Her
- Majesty’s Superintendent General of Indian Affairs in the said Province of Canada,
to the said Joseph Augustus Woodruff (by and with the privity, consent and appro-
bation of the said several other persons, granting parties hereto, testified by their
severally executing these presents) the sum of one thousand two hundred and fifty
pounds of lawful money of Canada in satisfaction of the share of the said Joseph
Augustus Woodruff in the said sum of five thousand pounds, the consideration
money aforesaid, as he, the said Joseph Augustus Woodruff, doth hereby admit and
acknowledge; and there hath also in like manner, and by with the like privity,
consent and approbation as aforesaid, testified as aforesaid, been paid by the said
Robert Bruce as such Superintendent as aforesaid to the said Warren Claus the like
sum of one thousand two hundred and fifty pounds of like lawful money aforesaid
in satisfaction of the share of the said Warren Claus in the said sum of five thousand
pounds, the consideration money aforesaid, as he the said Warren Claus doth hereby
admit and acknowledge ; and there hath also, in like manner and _ by and
with the like privity, consent and approbation as aforesaid, testified as afore-
said, been paid by the said Robert Bruce as such Superintendent as aforesaid
to the said Catherine Ann Margaret Lyons, the like sum of one thousand two hundred
and fifty pounds of like lawful money aforesaid, in satisfaction of the share of the
said Catherine Ann Margaret Lyons in the said sum of five thousand pounds, the con-
sideration money aforesaid, as she the said Gatherine Ann Margaret Lyons doth hereby
admit and acknowledge; and there hath also in like manner and by and with the like
privity, consent and approbation as aforesaid, testified as aforesaid, been paid by the said
Robert Bruce as such Superintendent as aforesaid to the said Walter Hamilton Dickson
the further sum of four hundred and sixteen pounds thirteen shillings and four pence
of like lawful money aforesaid, in satisfaction of the share of the said Walter Hamilton
Dickson and Augusta Maria, his wife, in right of the said Augusta Maria in the said
sum of five thousand pounds, the consideration money aforesaid, as he the said
Walter Hamilton Dickson doth hereby admit and acknowledge; and there hath also
in like manner, and by and with the like privity, consent and approbation as afore-
said, testified as aforesaid, been paid by the said Robert Bruce as such Superin-
tendent as aforesaid, to the said William Stewart, the further sum of four hundred and
sixteen pounds thirteen shillings and four pence of like lawful money aforesaid, in
satisfaction of the share of the said Wiliam Stewart and Catherine Claus, his wife,
‘n right of the said Catherine Claus, in the said sum of five thousand pounds, the
consideration money aforesaid, as he the said William Stewart doth hereby admit
and acknowldge ; and there hath also, in like manner and by and with the like
privity, consent, and approbation as aforesaid, testified as aforesaid, been paid by
the said Robert Bruce as such Superintendent as aforesaid to the said John Bernard
Geale the further sum of four hundred and sixteen pounds thirteen shillings and
four pence of like lawful money aforesaid, in satisfaction of the share of him the said
John Bernard Geale in the said sum of five thousand pounds, the consideration
money aforesaid as he the said John Bernard Geale doth hereby admit and acknow-
ledge, which said several sums of one thousand two hundred and fifty pounds, one
| thousand two hundred: and fifty pounds, one thousand two hundred and fifty pounds,
four hundred and sixteen pounds thirteen shillings and four pence, four hundred
and sixteen pounds thirteen shillings and four pence, and four hundred and sixteen
pounds thirteen shillings and four pence, form together the whole of the said sum of
five thousand pounds the consideration money so agreed to be paid by or on behalf
of Her said Majesty as aforesaid.
Now tis Inpenture WitnNessern, that in pursuance and performance of the
said recited agreement, and for the consideration hereinbefore expressed, and also in

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consideration of the several payments so respectively made by the said Robert Bruce,
on behalf of Her said Majesty as hereinbefore is mentioned, they the said Joseph
Augustus Woodruff and Julia, his wife, Catherine Ann Margaret Lyons, Walter
Hamilton Dickson and Augusta Maria, his wife, William Stewart, and Catherine Claus,
his wife, and John Bernard Geale and Caroline, his wife, as to their right, title and
interest in and to the lands and hereditaments firstly, secondly and fourthly herein-
after described and hereby surrendered and released or intended so to be,with their rights,
members and appurtenances, but as to the said Julia Woodruff and Caroline Geale for
the purpose and only for the purpose of barring their respective rights to dower of and
in the said hereditaments. And the said Warren Claus, as well as to his right, title,
and interest in and to the same lands and hereditaments as to the lands and heredit-
aments thirdly hereinafter surrendered and released or intended so to be with their
rights, members and appurtenances, have and each and every of them hath granted,
bargained sold, and also surrendered, remised, released and yielded up, and by these
presents do and each and every of them doth grant, bargain and sell and also suc-
render, remise, release and yield up unto Her said Majesty Queen Victoria Her heirs
and successors: First, all that parcel or tract of lands situate, lying and being in the
Township of Innisfil and County of Simcoe containing by admeasurement nine hun-
dred acres, be the same more or less, being composed of the north. halves of lots
numbers sixteen, eighteen, nineteen and twenty-one, and the south halves of lots
numbers fourteen, sixteen, eighteen, nineteen and twenty-one, in the fourth conces-
sion of the said Township of Innisfil, which said parcel or tract of land is butted and
bounded or otherwise known as follows, that is to say: Commencing where a post
has been planted at the north-east angle of each of the said north half lots respee-
tively; then south seventy three degrees thirty minutes west thirty chains, more or
less, to where a post has been planted at the north-west angle of each of the said halt
lots: then south nine degrees thirty minutes east thirty-three chains thirty three
links and an half, more or less, to the centre of the said concession; then north
seventy-three degrees thirty minutes east thirty chains, more or less, to the eastern
limit of each of the said half lots; then north nine degrees thirty minutes west
thirty-three chains thirty-three links and an half, more or less, to the place of
beginning in each of the said half lots. Also commencing where a_ post
has been planted at the south-west angle of each of the said south half lots
respectively ; then north seventy three degrees thirty minutes east thirty chains,
more or less, to where a post has been planted at the south-east angle of each of the
said half lots; thennorth nine degrees thirty minutes west thirty-three chains
thirty-three links and an _ half, more or less, to the centre of the said conession;
then south seventy-three degrees thirty minutes west thirty chains, more or less,
to the western limit of each of the said half lots; then south nine degrees thirty
minutes east thirty-three chains, thirty-three links and an half, more or less, to the
place of beginning in each of the said half lots. Secondly, all that parcel or tract of
iand situate, lying and being in the Township of Hawkesbury (Eastern Division) in
the County of Prescott, containing by admeasurement two thousand and eight hun-
dred acres of land, more or less, being composed of lots numbers twelve, fifteen and:
cighteer. in the fourth concession of the said township; lots numbers thirteen,
fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, eighteen and twenty-five in the fifth concession, and lots
numbers fourteen, fifteen, seventeen, eighteen and nineteen in the sixth concession
of the Township of Hawkesbury, and butted and bounded as follows, that is to say:
Commencing in front of the said concessions at the north-east angle of each of the
said lots respectively; then south twenty-five degrees west one hundred and_ five
chains twenty-seven links, more or less, to the allowance for road in rear of the said

concessions: then north sixty-five degrees west nineteen chains, more or less, to the |

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ssestern limit of each lot; then north twenty-five degrees east one hundred and five
chains twenty-seven links, more or less, to the allowance for road in front of the said
concession; then south sixty-five degrees east nineteen chains, more or less, to the
place of beginning in each lot. Thirdly, all that parcel or tract of land situcte, lying

end being in the Township of Hawkesbury (Eastern Division), in the said County of —