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And whereas, by an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, passed in the thirty- ;
first year of His Majesty’s reign, intituled “ An Act to repeal certain parts of an Act ~
passed in the fourteenth year of His Majesty’s reign, intituled ‘An Act for making
more effectual provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec in North
America, and to make further provision for the Government of the said Province,’”
it is declared “ That no grant of lands hereafter made shall be valid or effectual unless
“the same shall contain a specification of the lands to be allotted and appropriated
“solely to the maintenance of a Protestant clergy within the said Provinee,” in res-
pect of the lands to be'thereby granted. Now, Know ye, that we have caused an allot-
ment or appropriatoin of one hundred and seventy-one acres and three-sevenths to be
made in lot number ten in the seventh concession of the said Township of Hawkes-
bury (Western Division).

Given under the great seal of our Province of Upper Canada. Witness, Our
trusty and well-beloved Francis Gore, Esquire, our Lieutenant Governor of our said
Province, this fourteenth day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and nine and fiftieth of our reign. Br Ge

By command of His Excelleney in Council.

WM. JARVIS, Secretary.

WituiaAM Firru, Attorney General.

Entered with the Auditor, 20th November, 1809.

PP SELES
Auditor General.

IN OL a6!

Tuts INDENTURE made the seventeenth day of November, in the year of Our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, between Kinaybicoinini, Aisaince and Mis-
quuckkey, the Principal Chiefs of the Chippawa 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, De-
fender of the Faith, of the other part, Witnesseth: that the said Kinaybicoinini,
Aisaince and Misquuckkey, in consideration of five shillings apiece of lawful money
of Upper Canada to them in hand paid by His 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 Kinaybicoinini, Aisaince and Mis-
quuckkey 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 successors, all that parcel or tract of land situate and lying between
Kempenfelt Bay upon Lake Simcoe and the Lake Huron, in the Home District of
the Province of Upper Canada, and containing by estimation two hundred and fifty
thousand acres of land, be the same more or less, which said two hundred and fifty
thousand acres of land are butted and bounded or may be otherwise known as follows,
that is to say: Commencing on the north shore of Kempenfelt Bay on Lake
Simcoe where a stone boundary is to be fixed at the distance of twenty chains on a
course north eighty-one degrees west or thereabouts, from the base of a point called
Sand Point projecting itself about, five chains and a half into the said bay ;
then from the said stone boundary north forty degrees west thirty-six miles and 2
quarter, more or less, to Lake Huron; then along the shore of the said lake and
following the several turnings and windings of the same around sundry points of
land and bays to the bottom of a bay called Nottawaysague Bay, being the north-
western angle of the Penetangushine purchase in the year one thousand seven hun-
dred and ninety-eight; thence along the south-western boundary of the said
purchase on a course south seventy degrees east seven miles and a half, more or
less, to a small bay called Opetequoyawsing, and being the south-easterly angle of
the said Penetangushine purchase ; thence northerly through a small strait and
along the eastern shore thereof to Gloucester or Sturgeon Bay’;. from thence

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following the shore of said bay anc also the shore of Matchedas Bay easterly,
southerly and northerly according to the several windings thereof until it intersects
a line at or near the mouth of a small lake, being the western boundary of a purchase
said to have been made in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five ;
thence south along the western limits of the said purchase eleven miles, more or
less, till it intersects a line produced north seventy-eight degrees west from the waters
of Lake Simcoe near the carrying place hereinafter mentioned; then south seventy-
eight degrees east along the southern boundary line of the said last mentioned pur-
chase to the waters of Lake Simcoe near to a carrying place leading to a small lake
distant about three miles westerly ; and then south-westerly along the north-western
shore of Lake Simcoe and Kempenfelt Bay, following the several windings and
turnings of the same to the place of beginning, containing about two hundred and
fifty thousand acres of land, be the same more or less. And the reversion and rever-
sions, remainder and remainders, yearly and other rents, issues and profits thereof -
-and of 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 Kinaybicoinini,
Aisaince and Misquuckkey 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 ot 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 freehold reversion
and inheritance of the same premises and of every part and parcel thereof to Him
His said Majesty, His heirs and successors, the uses to be declared by another indenture
sntended to bear date the next day after the day of the date hereof.

Tn Witness WHEREOF the said parties first above named have to these presents set
their hands and seals the day and year first within written.

Signed, sealed and delivered in the) Je Civins, 9.1.A.,
presence of us: \ on behalf of the Crown. [L.S.]
ELIsHA BEMAN, | Commissioners on be- KINAYBICOININI, (totem) [L.$.]
Henry Procror,§ hulf of the Province. AISAINCE, (totem) Esa
W. M. Cocurane, Capt. Com. Lt. Infty. MIsquucKKEY, (totem)  [L.8.]

Arex. Ferauson, Lieut. Ind. Dept.
Wim Gruet, Interpreter.

No: 16.

Tus INDENTURE, made the eighteenth day of November, in the year of Our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, between Kinaybicoinini, Aisaince and Mis-
quuckkey, the Principal Chiefs of the Chippawa 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 for and in consideration of the sum of
four thousand pounds lawful money of Upper Canada to the said Kinaybicoinini,
-Aisaince and Misquuckkey, in hand well and truly paid by His said Majesty at or
before the sealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof they, the
said Kinaybicoinini, Aisaince and Misquuckkey do hereby acknowledge, and from
the same and: every part thereof do severally and respectively acquit, release and

discharge His said Majesty, His heirs and successors for ever by these presents,
they the said Kinaybicoinini, Aisaince and Misquuckkey 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 eonfirm unto His

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said Majesty (in His actual possession now being by virtue of a bargain and sale
to him thereof made by the said Kinaybicoinini, Aisaince and Misquuckkey in~
consideration of five shillings apiece, by Indenture bearing date the day next before
the day of date of these presents for the term of one whole year, commencing from —
the day next before the day of the date of the same Indenture of bargain 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 between Kem-
penfelt Bay upon Lake Simeoe and the Lake Huron, in the Home District of the
Province of Upper Canada, and containing by estimation two hundred and fifty
thousand acres of land, be the same or less, which said two hundred and fifty thousand
aeres of land are butted and bounded, or may be otherwise known as follows, that is
to say : Commencing on the north shore of Kempenfelt Bay on Lake Simcoe, where |
a stone boundary is to be fixed, at the distance of twenty chains on a course north
eighty-one degrees west or thereabouts from the base of a point ecailed Sand Point
projecting itself about five chains and a half into the said bay ; then from the said
stone boundary north forty degrees west thirty-six miles and a quarter, mcre or less,
to Lake Huron; then along the shore of the said lake and following the several
turnings and windings of the same around sundry points of land and bays to the
bottom of a bay called Nottawaysague Bay, being the north-western angle of the
Penetangushine purchase in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight ;
thence along the south-western boundary of the said purchase on a course south seventy
degrees east seven miles and a half, more or less, to a small bay called O-pe-te-quoy-
aw-sing, and being the south-easterly angle of the said Penetangushine purchase ;
thence northerly through a small strait and along the eastern shore thereof to Glou-
cester or Sturgeon Bay; from thence following the shore of said bay and also the
shore of Matchedas Bay easterly, southerly and northerly according to the several
windings thereof until it intersects a line at or near the mouth of a small lake being
the western boundary of a purchase said to have been made in the year one thousand
seven hundred and eighty-five ; thence south along the western limits of the said pur-
chase eleven miles more or less till it intersects a line produced north seventy-eight
degrees west from the waters of Lake Simcoe near the carrying place hereinater men-
tioned : then south seventy-eight degrees east along the southern boundary line of the
said last mentioned purchase to the waters of Lake Simcoe near to a carrying place
leading to a small lake, distant about three miles westerly, and then south-westerly
along the north-western shore of Lake Simcoe and of Kempenfelt Bay, following the
several windings and turnings of the same to the place of beginning, containing about
two’ hundred and fifty thousand acres of land, be the same more or less. To have and
to hold the said parcel or tract of land and all and singular other the premises men-
tioned to be hereby granted and released as aforesaid with their and every of their
appurtenances unto His said Majesty, His heirs and successors, to the uses of His said
Majesty, His heirs and successors for ever.

Ixy Witness WHEREOF, the said parties first above named have to these presents
set and put their hands and seals the day and year first above written.

Signed, sealed and delivered in_ the J. Givins, S.J.A., on behalf of the

presence of us: Crown. [L.S.]
ExvisHa BEeMANn, |]Commissioners on be- KINAYBICOININI, (totem) [L.8.]
Henry Procter,{ half of the Province. AISAINCE, (totem) [L.S.]
Wma. CocuraneE, Capt. Comg. Lt. Infty. MIsQUUCKKEY, (totem) [L.S.]

Auex. Ferouson, Lieut. Ind. Dept.
Wituiam GRuet, Interpreter.

We do hereby acknowledge to have received from His Majesty King George
the Third the full sum of four thousand pounds of lawful money of Upper Canada,
being the whole consideration money in the within deed mentioned to be paid to us.
on behalf of ourselves and our Nation for the tract of land by the said deed granted
and released.

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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.