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Witness Our trusty and well-beloved Sir Peregrine Maitland, K.C.B., Lieutenant
Governor of Our said Province and Major General Commanding Our Forces therein,
at York, this twelfth day of April, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hun-
dred and twenty-six, and sixth year of our reign.

By command of His Excellency in Council. P.M.
D. CAMERON, Secy.

O. CG. 11th March, 1826.—Under the administration of Sir P. Maitland, K.C.B.,
Lieutenant-Governor, for aforesaid 5,000 acres, in lieu of 5,000 erroneously granted
to the late Anne Claus, which have been recently surrendered to the Crown—Patent
gratuitous.

Entered with the Auditor, 14th April, 1826.

S. HEWARD, :

ee Auditor General, U.C.

ProvinciaAL REGISTPAR’S OFFICE,
MonTreEAL, 18th May, 1847.

I hereby certify that the within is a true and correct copy of the record of the
original grant as entered on the records of this office in Lib. B.F., Folio 334.

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No. 284.
To all to whom these presents shall come.

We, the Sachems and Chief Warriors of the Six Nations of Indians, inhabiting
aud owning the lands situate, lying and being on the Gran or River Ouse, in the
County of Haldimand, in the Province of Upper Canada, send greeting.

Whereas His late Majesty did by a certain instrument, bearing date the twenty-
fifth day of October, in the year of Our Lord one thousand seren hundred, and eighty-
four, under the hand and seal of Sir Frederick Haldimand, then Governor of Quebec,
allot and grant unto us upon the banks of the said river running into Lake Erie six
miles deep from each side of the said river, beginning at Lake Erie and extending in
that proportion to the head of the said river.

And whereas our brother, the late Captain Joseph Brant, Thayendaneaga, Sachem
and Chief Warrior of the said Six Nations, our true and lawful attorney, did, by an

> indenture of lease, secure unto Jemima Stewart, of the Town of Niagara, in the
District of Niagara, widow, and Sarah Ruggles, of the County of Haldimand (wife
of William Ruggles), daughters of Brant Johnson, our Brother Sachem and Chief
— Warrior, a certain tract of the said land on the south side of the said river. And
__ whereas our said Brother Sachem and Chief Warrior, the said Brant Johnson, served
% during all the old French War as well as that of the Rebellion, and removed with us
to this country from our lands on the Mohawk River, and continued with us until
™ his death. And we the said Sachems and Chief Warriors well knowing his losses
and sufferings in common with ourselves, have this day in General Council, as a
manifestation of our love and esteem for our departed brother warrior, unanimously
' determined to surrender to His Majesty the said tract of country, in order that the
same may be more effectually secured to his children, the said Jemima Stewart and
Sarah Ruggles, their heirs and assigns, by letters patent under the Great Seal of this
Province. Now know ye, that for the said good causes, and of our love and affec-
tion for the children of our said Brother Sachem and Chief Warrior, we, the said
- Sachems and Chief Warriors in General Council of our Nations, have, and each of us
hath, surrendered, relinquished and yielded up, and by these presents do and each
¢ of us doth surrender, relinquish and yield up unto our Sovereign Lord the present
King’s Most Excellent Majesty, His heirs and successors, all that certain parcel or
___ tract of land, situate, lying and being on the south side of the said Grand or River

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Ouse, in the County of Haldimand, in the District of Gore, in the said Province, and —
being within the limits of our said grant, containing by admeasurement fourteen —
hundred acres, more or less, and which is butted and bounded as follows, that is to
say : Commencing on the south side of the said river at the easterly angle of lands
owned by Elizabeth Clench at the water’s edge ; then south sixty-five degrees west
one hundred and six chains; then south twenty-seven degrees west one hundred and —
sixty chains; then south sixty-two degrees and thirty minutes east one hundred and
twenty chains; then north twenty-seven degrees and thirty minutes east one hundred
and sixty chains; then north sixty-five degrees east sixty-two chains, more or less, to
the said Grand River; then up the said river against the stream, its several courses
and windings, to the place of beginning. And also all the estate, right, title, interest,
reversion, remainder, property, claim and demand whatsoever of us the said Sachems
and Chief Warriors of, in, to or out of the same or any part thereof or parcel of the
same : For the express purpose and to the intent that the same, and every part thereof,
may be confirmed by Letters Patent from His Majesty, under the Great Seal of this
Province, to the said Jemima Stewart and Sarah Ruggles, their heirs and assigns for
ever (as tenants in common and not as joint tenants).

Ix Wirness WHEREOF, we, the said Sachems and Chief Warriors of the Six
Nations have, in General Council, hereunto set our hands and seals this fourth day
of August, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.

Signed, sealed and delivered in OGHNAWERA, pS.)
presence of: DEYONHEHGWEH, [L.8.]
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No. 29.

Tuis INDENTURE, made the tenth day of July, in the year of Our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, between Wawanosh, Osawip, Shashawin-
ibisie, Pukinince, Negig, Cheebican, Mukatwokijigo, Mshikinaibik, Animikince,
Peetawtick, Shawanipinissie, Saganash, Anottowin, Penessiwagum, Shaioukima,
Chekateyan, Mokeetchiwan and Quaikeegon, Chiefs and Frincipal Men of that part
of the Chippewa Nation of Indians inhabiting and claiming the territory or tract of
land hereinafter described, of the one part, and Our Sovereign Lord George the
Fourth, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
King, Defender of the Faith, of the other ‘part.

Whereas, His Majesty being desirous of appropriating to the purposes of culti-
vation and settlement a tract of land hereinafter particularly described, lying within
the limits of the Western District and District of London, in the Province of Upper
Canada, and heretofore possessed and inhabited by a part of the Chippewa Nation of
Indians, it was proposed to the Chiefs and Principal Men ef the said Indians at a
Council assembled for that purpose at Amherstburg, in the said Western District, on .
the twenty-sixth day of April, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and twenty-five, that they should surrender the said tract of land and the possession
and the right of possession heretofore enjoyed by them in the same to His Majesty,
His heirs and successors, for such recompense to be made by His Majesty to the said
Nation of Indians as should at the said Council be agreed upon.

And whereas it was, at the said Council, concluded upon and agreed between
| James Givins, Esquire, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, acting in behalf of His
| said Majesty in the premises, and the Chiefs and Principal Men of the said Nation of
Indians assembled at the said Council, that the parcel or tract of land hereinafter
particularly described should, for the consideration herein set forth, be surrendered
and for ever yielded up by the said Nation of Indians to His Majesty , His heirs and
ie «Successors, and a provisional agreement was for that purpose made and executed by
the said James Givins, Esquire, and the Chiefs and Principal Men of the said Nation
a of Indians, bearing date the said twenty-sixth day of April, in the year aforesaid.

. And whereas, the tract of land intended and agreed to be surrendered as afore-
said has been since accurately surveyed, so that the same, as-well as certain small

Fe reservations expressed to be made by the said Indians from and out of the said tract
for the use of themselves and their posterity, can now be certainly defined. Now
this indenture witnesseth that Wawanosh, Osawip, Shashawinibisie, Pukmince, Negig;
| Cheebikan, Mukatuokijigo, Mshikinaibik, Animikmcee, Peetautick, Shawanipinissie,
. Saganash, Anottowin, Pinessiwagum, Shaioukima, Chekateyen, Mokeetchiwan and