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whereof we do hereby acknowledge), have surrendered and yielded up, and by these
presents do surrender and yield up, unto Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Her heirs and
successors, all the estate, right, title, interest and claim whatsoever which we, the
said John Henry Dunn, George Herchmer Markland and William Hepourn, have,
under and by virtue of the said above in part recited trust conveyance, of, in and 19
all that certain parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being in the Township of
Otonabee, in the: County of Northumberland, in the District of Neweastle, aforesaid,
being composed of the broken lot numbered three, in the tenth concession of the sai
township, and containing by admeasurement twenty acres, be the same more or less,
and more particularly described by metes and bounds in the said above in part recite:l
trust conveyance, to have and to hold the same unto Her said Majesty, Her heirs and
syecessors for ever, upon trust, nevertheless, for the use and benefit of the asove men-

{ioned tribe of Indians as aforesaid.

In TestiMoNY WHEREOF, we have hereto set our hands and seals this twenty-ninth

day of April, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.

Signed, sealed and delivered in JOuN ta. DUNN, [L.8.]
presence of Grorce H. MarKkLanp, [(_.S.]
By Joun H. Donn, | WILLIAM HEPBURN. eRSE |

April 29th, 1845
Wo. P. JARVIs.
Signed and sealed and delivered by the above named

G. H. Markland, In presence of

J. J. BURROWES.
REGISTRY OFFICE,
County oF PETERBOROUGH, CANADA.

I do hereby certify that a memorial of the within surrender to the Crown was
by me duly registered on the third day of April, in the year of Our Lord. one thousand
ight hundred and forty-six, at the hour of nine of the clock, a.m., in Liber B., Folio
two hundred and seventy-two, memorial number one thousand six hundred and fifteen,
and proved by James Joseph Burrowes, of the Town of Kingston in the Midland Dis-

trict, Esquire.
CHAS. RUBIDGE,

Registrar.
Recorded 14th: February, 1867. i
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Lib. O. S. of Surrenders, Folio 292.
Gero. H. LANE,

Dep. Provl. Regr.

‘vo all to whom these presents shall come :—

We, the Chiefs, Warriors, Women and People of the Six Nations Indians, residing
in the District or Territory called the Tyendinaga District,—send GREETING.

Whereas, His late Majesty King George tne Third, by His Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of that part of the Province of Canada heretofore known as the Pro-
vince of Upper Canada, and bearing date on or about the first day of April, in the
year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, after reciting that
‘¢he attachment and fidelity of. the Chiefs, Warriors and People of the Six Nations
+o His said Majesty and His Government had been made manifest on divers ocea-
sions by their spirited and zealous exertions and by the bravery of their conduct,
sud His said Majesty being desirous of showing His approbation of the same and in
1ecompénse of the losses they might have sustained of providing a convenient tract of
land under his protection for a safe and comfortable retreat for them and their pos-
terity, did of His special grace, certain knowledge and mere motion, give and grant unto
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the Chiefs, Warriors and people of the said Six Nations and their heirs for ever-—
All that district or territory of land, being parce] of a certain district lately purchased
by His said Majesty of the Mississagua Nation, lying and being, and limited and —
bounded as follows, that is to say): The tract bounded in front by the Bay of Quinté —
Letween the mouths of the River Shannon and Bowen’s Creek, about twelve miles wes-
erly by a line running north sixteen degrees west from the west side of the moutn —
of the River Shannon and easterly by a line running north sixteen degrees west from E
the mouth of Bowen’s Creek, and northerly by: a line running east sixteen degrees
north and west sixteen degrees south at the distance of about thirteen miles back from
the Bay of Quinté, measured on the western boundary aforesaid, to the north-east
angle of the Township of Thurlow: To have and to hold the said district or territory
of land of His said Majesty and His heirs and successors to them the Chiefs, Warriors,
Women and People of the said Six Nations, and to have for the use’ and behoof of
them and their heirs for ever, freely and clearly, of and from all manner of rents, —
fines, or services whatsoever, to be rendered by them the said Chiefs, Warriors, Women
ond People of the said Six Nations to His said Majesty and His successors for the
same. and of and from all conditions, stipulations and agreements whatsoever, except
as in the said Letters Patent thereinafter by His said Majesty expressed and declared,
giving and granting, and by the said Letters Patent confirming, to the said Chiefs,
Warriors, Women and People of the said Six Nations and their heirs the full and
entire possession, use, benefit and advantage of the said district or territory of land,
to be held and enjoyed by them in the most free and ample manner and according to
«hie several customs and usages by them the said Chiefs, Warriors, Women and People
of the said Six Nations, and in and by the said Letters Patent it was provided and
declared to be His said Majesty’s Royal will and pleasure that, for the purpose of
assuring the said lands, as aforesaid, to the said Chiefs, Warriors, Women and People
of the said Six Nations and their heirs, and of securing to them the free and undis-
turbed possession and enjoyment of the same, no transfer, alienation, conveyance, sale,
eift, exchange, lease, property or possession should at any time be had, made or given
of the said district or territory, or any part or parcel thereof, by any of the said Chiefs,
Warriors, Women or People of the said Six Nations to any other Nation or
body of people, person or persons, whatsoever, other than among themselves, the said
Chiefs, Warriors, Women and People of the said Six Nations, but that any such trans-
fer, alienation, conveyance, sale, gift, exchange, lease, or possession should be null and
void and of no effect whatever and that no person or persons should possess or occupy
the said district or territory, or any part or parcel thereof, by or under pretence of any
such alienation, or conveyance, as aforesaid, or by or under any pretence whatever
under pain of His said Majesty’s severe displeasure, and that in case any person cr
persons other than the said Chiefs, Warriors, Women and People of the said Six
Nations should, under any pretence of any such Title as aforesaid presume
to possess or occupy the said district or territory, or amy part or pareel
thereof, that it should and. might be lawful for His said Majesty, His heirs and suc-
cessors, at any time, to enter upon the lands so occupied and possessed by any other
person or persons other than the said Chiefs, Warriors, Women. and People of the said
Six Nations and them the said intruders thereof and therefrom wholly to dispossess
and evict, and to resume the same to His said Majesty, His heirs and successors.
And further that if at any time the said Chiefs, Warriors, Women and People of
the said Six Nations should be inclined to dispose of and surrender their use
ond interest in the said district or territory the same should be purchased only
for His said Majesty, in His name, at some public meeting or assembly of the Chiefs,
Warriors and People of the said Six Nations, to be held for that purpose by the
Governor, Lieutenant-Governor or person administering the Government in the said
then Province of Upper Canada. And whereas, we, the Chiefs, Warriors, Women
and People of the said Six Nations now residing on the said district or territory in
Council assembled and being so assembled and held by order of His Excellency the Gov-
ernor General of the Province of Canada, being minded and desirous of surrendering

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-Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors, in order that the same may be sold and disposed
and yieluing up the parcel or tract of land hereinafter described unto and to the use of
of to any person or persons who shall be willing to become the purchaser or purchasers
thereof, for the best price, or prices, that can be obtained for the same, and that the
money therefrom arising may be held and applied -for our use in such and the same

manner as other monies belonging to us are now held by Her Majesty, have determined

to surrender and release the same to Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors (Her .
Majesty having been graciously pleased to declare it to be Her royal will and intention
to carry these our wishes into effect, in order that Her Majesty may, by the acceptance
of this our surrender, be enabled to re-grant the same to the persons hereinafter in
that behalf named, to be held by them and their heirs upon the trusts and for the ends,
intents and purposes and with, under and subject to the powers, provisoes, conditions,
restrictions, limitations and declarations in the Letters Patent hereinafter referred
to, to be expressed, declared and contained of, and concerning, the same). ow know
Ye that we, the Chiefs, Warriors, Women and People of the said Six Natitrs; residing
on the said district or territory, in Council assembled, as aforesaid, having duly

‘weighed ‘and considered the matters aforesaid and in order to re-invest the Tract or
Parcel of land hereinafter described and hereby surrendered, or intended so to be,
in Her Majesty, so that Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors may thereby be en-
abled to re-grant the same in manner hereinafter mentioned, have surrendered and
yielded up, remised and released, and by these presents do surrender and yield up,
remise and release, unto Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors, all that tract or parcel
of land situate, lying and being in the Township of Tyendinaga, in the District of
Victoria, and on the south-easterly side of the Salmon River in the Province of Canada,
being composed of parts of lots numbers five and six, in the first concession south of

~ the road, in the said township, containing by admeasurement twenty-six acres and three
roods of land, be the same more or less, including the several streets laid out, or in-

tended to be laid out, thereon for the purpose of forming a town plot and which said
tract or parcel of land is butted and bounded, or may be otherwise known as follows

(that is to say): Commencing in front of the said concession at the south-east angle

® Of the said lot number six; then north sixteen degrees west thirteen chains, more or

less, to the land leased by the Mohawk Indians to George Auldjo, Esquire; then south-
erly seventy-four degrees west twenty chains fifty links, more or less, to the south-east-
erly side of Salmon River; then south-westerly, following the south-easterly side of
the said river down the stream to the allowance for road|in front of the said concession ;

then north eighty-two degrees thirty minutes east twenty-nine chains seventy-five 4

links, more or less, to the place of beginning. And the reversion and reversions, re-
mainder and remainders, yearly and other rents, issues and profits thereof. And all

intended so to be, with the rights, members and appurtenances thereto belonging or in
any wise appertaining. To the end and intent that Her Majesty may, by the accept-
ance of this our surrender, be enabled to carry into effect Her Gracious will and in-
tention and to re-grant the same parcel or tract of land unto George Vardon, of the
City of Montreal, Esquire, Assistant Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, and
Thomas G. Anderson, of the City of Toronto, Esquire, and Joseph B. Clench, of the
Town of London, in the District of London, Esquire, Visiting Superintendent of
Indian Affairs, and their successors in office, as trustees for us the said Chiefs, Warriors,
Women and People of the said Six Nations. Upon such trusts and for such ends, in-
tents and purposes, and with, under and subject to such powers, provisoes, conditions,
restrictions, reservations and declarations, as by Her Majesty, Her heirs and succes-

sors, in and by the Letters Patent granting the same, shall be expressed or declared of
and concerning the same tract or parcel of land, or any part or parcel thereof.

As Wrirness AND IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, we the undersigned Chiefs, Warriors and
People of the Six Nations Indians in Council assembled, for and on behalf of ourselves

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and all other the Chiefs, Warriors, Women and People of the said Six Nations Indians, —
have, according to the custom of the said Six Nations Indians, set and affixed our

Totems this eleventh day of July, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred.
and forty-six. ;

In presence of: his |
SALTERN GIVINS, Brant x BRANT, [L.S.]
Missionary. ; P ae
Tia 20WLES CLAUS, [L.8.]
JOHN COOK, Onmeic! his “
School Master. JOSEPH x SMART, [L.8.]
JOHN BROWNE, ne
Jn > . nls
School Master. Josrpa x Pann. [LS]
mark
JOHN CULBERTSON, [L.8.]
his
THOMAS x GREEN, [L.8.]
mark
SETH PowLEs, [L.8.]
ISAAGpoEltinig “Gauge oT .S: |
ALEx, LOFT, [L.S.]
ABM. BRANT, [L.S.]
ALLAN GREEN, [L.8.]
JOHN BRANT. [L.S.]
Certified: ons .
T. G. ANDERSON, _ Approved,
Fe Spd Ay CATHCART,
Jno. Hitt, By Command, S
Interpreter. GEORGE VARDON,

Asst. Supt.-General.

PROVINCIAL REGISTRAR’S OFFICE,
MontreAt, 21st September, 1846.

I hereby certify that the within deed of surrender hath been this day entered on
the records of this office in Lib. “ A. Surrenders to the Crown,” Fol. 317.

R. A. TUCKER,
Registrar.

No. 57.

Tus INDENTURE, made the first day of June, in the year of Our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and forty-seven, between Swasen Teosharakwente, Swasen Sate-
hawennoten, Sak Taratie, Rowi Tawenrate, Antre Karenhoton, Tier Ositakete,
Atonwa Sakokete, Rowi Tarakonnente, Roren Taronkowa, Rasar Rotsinhen, Tier
Kaientoa, Watias Karenhisen, Atonwa Soratese, Sak Tanonsoukotha, Tier Sakoianen-
hawi, Regis Katsiraberon, Tier Ahiataratie, Roren Tionatagwente, Wishe Otsitsiakite,
Sawatis Kanatsiohare, Watias Aroniatis, Saksarie Terihokte, Sak Gahionwakenra, Sras
Tsiniiakoa, Tier Tarakorens, Ari Hakiato-arongwen, Joseph Katienontie and Rasar
Sotiokwese, Sachems or Chiefs, or Principal Men of the Iroquois Indians residing at
St. Regis, in the District of Montreal, and who are possessed of the tract of land
hereinafter described, situated in the County of Glengarry, in that part of this
Province heretofore constituting the Province of Upper Canada, commonly called
the Indian Reserve of the one part, and Our Sovereign Lady Victoria, of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Qveen, Defender of the Faith, of the other part.

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