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We, Thomas Mercer Jones, of the Town of Goderich, County of Huron, Huron
- District and Province of Canada, and Frederick Widder, of the City of Toronto,
County of York, Home District and Province aforesaid, Esquires, the attornies of.
the said Canada Company, incorporated under and by virtue of an Act. made and
passed in the sixth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, en-
titled: “An Act to enable His Majesty to grant to a Company, to be incorporated by
Charter, to be called ‘ The Canada Company,’ certain lands in the Province of Upper
Canada, and to invest the said Company with certain powers and privileges, and for
other purposes relating thereto,” being constituted and appointed such attornies by
virtue and in pursuance of an Act passed in the ninth year of the reign of His Ma-
jesty King George the Fourth, entitled: “An Act to alter and amend an Act for
enabling His Majesty to grant to a Company, to be incorporated by charter, to be
ealled ‘The Canada Company, certain lands in the Province of Upper Canada,”
do hereby, in consideration of the sum of two hundred and seventy-five pounds law-
ful money of the Province of Canada, to us, as such attornies, as aforesaid, paid
by Samuel P. Jarvis, Chief Superintendent of Indian Affairs, grant and release, yield
up and surrender unto Our Sovereign Lady Victoria, by the Grace of God of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, and to
Her heirs and successors, all that certain parcel or tract of land situate as follows :

Delaware, County of Middlesex, London District and Province of Canada aforesatl,
containing by admeasurement four hundred acres of land, be the same more or less,
and all the right, title and interest of the said Canada Company to and in the same
and every part thereof, to have and to hold unto Our said Lady the Queen, Her heirs
and successors forever.

In Witness WuEREOF, we the said Thomas Mercer Jones and Frederick Widder
have hereunto subscribed our hands, as attornies of the said Canada Company, and
affixed our seal of office at the City of Toronto, in the Province of Canada, this
twelfth day of March, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-

two.
Signed, sealed and delivered) THOS. MERCER JONES, [L.s.1

FREDK. WIDDER. fies.

in presence of: \
Donatp McDONALD,

THos. COLLIER.
Received the above deed with memorial 24th day of March, 1842.

SAML. P. JARVIS,
Ch. S. I. Affairs.

We certify that the above +3 a true and correct copy of a deed of surrender to

Her Majesty the Queen, dated as above, and recorded in Vol. 18, folio 147, of Deeds.
HERBERT HAMILTON,

CG. G. HALLSWELL.

J. MICHEL, No. 235.
PROVINCE OF CANADA.

Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,

QurEN, Defender of the Faith.

To all to whom these presents shall come,—GREETING :

Whereas, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty,
certain Indians of the Oneida Tribe, to the number of four hun-

Grant to the Onei- : : ; :
dasy of ae iver dred and thirty-six persons, having a purpose and desire to

Thames, 400 acres, become subjects of the British Crown, did emigrate from the

Township of Dela- [jnited States of America and become inhabitants of the Town-

ware,, County of 3 ; : é :
Middlesex. Recorded ship of Delaware, in the County of Middlesex, in the western

ees Dep. gection of our Province of Ganada. And did, thro’ the instru-
: mentality of the officers of the Indian Department, purchase