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Witness our hands this eighth day of October, in the year of Our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

Witness:
ELIsHA BEMAN, [Commissioners on be- KINAYBICOININI, (totem)
Henry Procter, { half of the Province. AISAINCE, (totem)
J. Givins, Supt. Ind. Affairs, on behalf MISQUUCKKEY, (totem).

of the Crown.
Danu. Brooke, Lieut. and Acig. Adjt.
Wittram Gruet, Interpreter, Ind. Dept.

No: 27.

Tis INDENTURE, made the fifth day of August, in the year of Our Lord one thou-
sand eight hundred and sixteen, between Mesequescon, TIndanwaywey and Kaybesh-
kang, the Principal Chiefs of the Mississague Nation of Indians on behalf of them-
selves and their Nation of the one part, and His Majesty George the Third, by the
Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender
of the Faith, of the other part, Witnesseth : that the said Mesequescon, Indanwaywey
and Kaybeshkang, 1n consideration of five shillings apiece of lawful money of Upper
Canada to them in hand paid by His said Majesty at or before the ensealing and
delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and for other
good causes and considerations, them the said Mesequescon, Indanwaywey and Kay-
heshkang hereunto specially moving, have bargained and sold, and by these presents
do and each of them doth bargain and sell unto His said Majesty, His heirs and suc-
cessors, all that parcel or tract of land situate and lying in the Township of Thurlow,
in the Midland District of the Province of Upper Canada, and fronting upon the
Pay of Quinté at the mouth of the River Moira, and containing by estimation four
hundred and twenty-eight acres be the same more or less, which said four hundred
and twenty-eight acres of land are butted and bounded or may be otherwise known
as follows, that 1s to say: Commencing on the north shore of the Bay of Quinté at
the south-west angle of lot number five in front in the Township of Thurlow ; then
north sixteen degrees west two hundred and forty-five chains twenty-seven links,
may the same be more or legs, to the allowance for road in front of the third conces-
sion in the said township; then south seventy-four degrees west eighteen chains
fifty links, more or less, to the limit between lot number four and three ; then south
sixteen degrees to the waters of the Bay of Quinte at the mouth of the River Moira;
then along the water’s edge, following the several courses thereof with the stream to
the place of beginning; and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders
yearly and other rents, issues and profits thereof, and every part and parcel thereof.
To have and to hold the said parcel or tract of land, and all and singular other the
premises hereinbefore mentioned or intended to be bargained and sold and every part
and parcel thereof with their and every of their appurtenances unto His said Majesty,
His heirs and successors, from the day next before the day of the date of these presents
for and during and unto the full end and term of one whole year from thence next
ensuing, and fully to be completed and ended, yielding and paying therefor unto the
said Mesequescon, Indanwaywey and Kaybeshkang the yearly rent of one Pepper
Corn at the expiration of the said term: if the same shall be lawfully demanded, to
the intent and purpose that by virtue of these presents and of the statute made for
transferring uses into possession, His said Majesty may be in the actual possession of
the premises and be thereby enabled to take and accept a grant and release of the
frechold reversion and inheritance of the same premises and of every part and parcel
thereof to him His said Majesty, His heirs and successors, to the uses to be declared
by another Indenture intended to bear date the next day after the day of the date

hereof.
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IN Witness Wuereror, the said parties first within named have to these presents

set their hands and seals the day and year first within written.
Signed, sealed and delivered. in’ the J. Grvins, S.J.A.;
presence of on behalf of the Crown, [L.8.]
Wa. Bruce, Capt. 387th Regt. MESEQUESCON, (totem) PES.
W. ALLAN, Commissioner. INDANWAYWEY, (totem) [L.8.]
ALEX. Woop, Commissioner. KKAYBESHKANG, (totem) [L.8.]

Tus IndentrurrE, made the sixth day of August, in the year of Our Lord one |
thousand eight hundred and sixteen, between Mesequescon, Indanwaywey and
Kaybeshkang, the Principal Chiefs of the Mississague Nation of Indians on behalf of —
themselves and their nation of the one part, and His Majesty George the Third,
by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King,
Detender of the Faith, of the other part, Witnesseth: that for and in consideration of
the sum of one hundred and seven pounds lawful money of Upper Canada to the
said Mesequescon, Indanwaywey and Kaybeshkang in hand well and truly paid by
[lis said Majesty at or before the sealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt
whereof they the said Mesequescon, Indanwaywey and Kaybeshkang do hereby
acknowledge, and from the same and every part thereof do severally and respectively
ucquit, release and discharge His said Majesty, His heirs and successors for ever by
chesé presents. 3

They the said Mesequescon, Indanwaywey and Kaybeshkang have and every
of them hath granted, bargained, sold, aliened, released and confirmed, and by these —
presents do and every of them doth grant, bargain, sell alien release and confirm
unto His said Majesty (in His actual possession now being by virtue of a bargain
and sale to Him thereof made by the said Mesequescon, Indanwaywey and Kaybesh-
kang in consideration of five shillings apiece by Indenture bearing date the day next
before the day of the date of these presents for the term of one whole year, com-
mencing from the day next before the day of the date of the same Indenture of bar-
gain and sale and by force of the statute made for transferring uses into possession),
and to His heirs and successors, all that parcel or tract of land, situate and lying
in the Township of Thurlow, in the Midland District, and fronting upon the Bay
of Quinté at the mouth of the River Moira, and containing by estimation four
hundred and twenty-eight acres of land, be the same more or less, which said four
hundred and twenty-eight acres of land are butted and bounded, or may be otherwise
known as follows, that is to say: Commencing on the north shore of the Bay of Quinté,
at the south-west angle of lot number five, in front, in the Township of Thurlow; then
north sixteen degrees west two hundred and forty-five chains twenty seven links, may
the same be more or less, to the allowance for road in front of the third concession
in the said township; then south seventy-four degrees west eighteen chains fifty links,
more or less, to the limit between lots number two and three; then south sixteen
degrees to the waters of the Bay of Quinté at the mouth of the River Moira ; then
along the water’s edge following the several courses thereof, with the stream, to the
place of beginning. To have and to hold the said parcel or tract of land, and all and
singular other the premises mentioned to be hereby granted and released, as afore-
caid, with their and every of their appurtenances unto His said Majesty, His heirs
and successors to the uses of His said Majesty, His heirg and successors for ever.

In WitNEss WHEREOF, the said parties first above named have to these presents

ot and put their hands and seals the day and year first above written.

Sion aed, sealed and delivered in the J. Givins, S.J.A., on behalf of the

presence of us: Crown. [L.8.]
Wma. Bruce, Captain 387th Regiment. MESEQUESOON, (totem) [L.8.]
W. Atian, Commissioner. TINDANWAYWEY, (totem) [L.S.]

ALEX. Woop, Commissioner. : IXAYBESHKANG, (totem) [L.S.]

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