ali

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In Witness Wuereor, the said parties hereto have hereunto set their hands and

seals the day and year above written.

“Signed, sealed and delivered by the J. Givins, Poesy
above named James Givins i A. GIVINS, [L.S.]
his wife in the presence of : JOHN H. DUNN,
ANDREW Top, | Grorce H. MArkLANpD, [L.8.]
R. H. THORNHILL, | WILLIAM HEPBURN, [L.S.]
Both of the City of Toronto,
Gentlemen.

Signed, sealed and delivered by ied
above named John Henry Dunn,
George Herchmer Markland Tt
William Hepburn in the presence

of: J
W. Ross, of the City of Toronto,
Gentleman.
£200.

Received on the day of the date of the within written Indenture of and from the
above named John Henry Dunn, George Herchmer Markland and William Hepburn,
the sum of two hundred pounds of lawful money of Upper Canada, being the consider-
| ation money above expressed to be paid by them to me.

J. GIVENS:
Witnesses :
ANDREW Ton,
R. H. THORNHILL.

| Before. me, the Honorable James Buchanan Macaulay, one of His Majesty’s
| Justices of the Court of King’s Bench, of the Province of Upper Canada, personally
| appeared the above named Angelica Givins, and being duly examined by me touching
| her consent to be barred of her dower of and in the lands above described, she gave her
_ consent thereto, and it did appear to me that such consent was free and voluntary and
| not the effect of coercion, or fear of coercion, on the part of her husband or any other
| person.

| Given under my hand this twelfth day of July, in the year of Our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.

J. Bs MACAULEY, J.K.B.

CouNTY OF
NORTHUMBERLAND. |

REGIsTRyY OFFICE, \

I do hereby certify that the memorial produced of the within Indenture for
registry was by me duly registered on the tenth day of October, in the year of Our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, at the hour of nine of the clock in the
forenoon, in Liber K, folio one hundred and fifty-nine; memorial number, four thou-
sand four hundred and sixty-nine.

R.,  EHROOP,
Dy. Registrar.

No. 44.

Know att MEN By THESE PRESENTS, that we, Sawgononghquitwabe, Shawondais,
Omemee, Wabechenese and Budjeewowwabe, Sachems or Principal ‘Chiefs of the
Mississagua Tribe of Indians of Kingston and the Bay of Quinté, in the Province of
Upper Canada, in consideration of the trust and confidence by us reposed in His Most
Gracious Majesty, King William the Fourth, and in order that His Majesty, His heirs
and successors, may grant and dispose of the lands and hereditaments hereinafter com-
ee

prised and described for the benefit of the said Indians in such manner and form and
at such price, or prices as to His said Majesty, His heirs or successors, shall seem best,
have remised, released, surrendered, quitted claim and yielded up, and by these presents
do remise, release, surrender, quit claim and yield up unto His said Most Gracious —
Majesty King William the Fourth, His heirs jand successors, all those several lots,
pieces or parcels of land situate on Wolfe Lake, in the Township of Bedford, in the —
Midland District of the said Province (that is to say), lots eighteen, nineteen, twenty, —
twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five and twenty-six, in the ninth con- ©
cession of the said township. Also, lots eighteen, nineteen, twenty-one, twenty-two,
twenty-three, twenty-five, twenty-six and twenty-eight in the tenth concession of the |
same township. And also, lots twenty-two, twenty-three and twenty-four in the eleventh
concession of the said township, and containing in the whole two thousand six hundred —
and eighty acres, or thereabouts, to the end, intent and purpose that the said lands and ©
premises shall and may be granted and.disposed of by His said Majesty, His heirs and
successors, in trust for the benefit of the said Mississagua Tribe of Indians, of Kings-
ton and the Bay of Quinté, and upon and for no other use, trust, end, intent or purpose
whatsoever. (

Ix WitNESs WHEREOF, we the said Sachems or Principal Chiefs of the said Indians ll
have hereunto set our hands and seals at the Rice Lake this twenty-fifth day of May, in
the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.

Signed and sealed in the] © (totem) [1L.8.]
presence of . JoHN SuNpbAy (totem) [L.8.]
CHARLES ANDERSON, : (totem) [L.8.]

JOHN TURNER, .- (totem) [1L.8.]
TxHos. B, BENEDICT. (totem) [L.S.]

No. 45,
My CHILDREN :

Seventy snow seasons have now passed away since we met in Council at the
crooked place (Niagara), at which time and place your Great Father, the King, and
the Indians of North America tied their hands together by the wampum of friendship.

Since that period various circumstances have occurred to separate from your Great
Father many of his red. children, and as an unavoidable increase of white population,
as well as the progress of cultivation, have had the natural effect of impoverishing your
hunting grounds it has become necessary that new, arrangements should be entered into
for the purpose of protecting you from the encroachments of the whites.

Tn all parts of the world farmers seek for uncultivated land as eagerly as you, my
red children, hunt in your forest for game. If you would cultivate your land it would
then be considered your own property, in the,same way as your dogs are considered
among yourselves to belong to those who have reared them; but uncultivated land is like
wild animals, and your Great Father, who has hitherto protected you, has now great
difficulty in securing it for you from the whites, who are hunting to cultivate it.

Under these circumstances, I have been obliged to consider what is best to be done
for the red children of the forest, and I now tell you my thoughts.

It appears that these islands on which we are now assembled in Council are, as
well as all those on the north shore of Lake Huron, alike claimed by the English, the
Ottawas and the Chippewas.

T consider that from their facilities and from their being surrounded by innumer-
able fishing islands, they might be made a most desirable place of residence for many In-
dians who wish to be civilized, as well as to be totally separated from the whites; and I
now tell you.that your Great Father will withdraw his claim to these islands and allow
them to be applied for that purpose. :

Are you, therefore, the Ottawas and Chippewas, willing to relinquish your respec-
tive claims to these islands and make them the property (under your Great Father's