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Grand River Reserve land documents [textual record]

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Series

Date:

1795.

Reference:

MG19-F8

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

125039

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Six Nations of the Grand River fonds

Grand River Reserve land documents
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Date(s):

1795.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

0.3 cm of textual records (9 p.).

Language of material:

English

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Series consists of four documents pertaining to land at Six Nations of the Grand River: a grant of 92,160 acres of land known as Block 1 of the Grand River Indian Reserve (in what is now North Dumfries Township) by the Six Nations to Phillip Stedman, signed by Joseph Brant and numerous other chiefs, photocopy, 1795 (1 p.); two documents concerning Lord Selkirk's title to and mortgaging of Block 5 of the Grand River reserve, 1824 and 1830 (2 p.); and one letter from John Claus to John Small on the former's claim to land and responsibility for land sales funds on the Grand River reserve, 1830, transcript (6 p.).
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Author: Claus, John

Recipient: Stedman, Philip, approximately 1795

Signer: Brant, Joseph, 1742-1807

Upper Canada. Executive Council

Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, Earl of, 1771-1820

Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, comte de, 1771-1820

Haut-Canada. Executive Council
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General note:

The Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (sometimes referred to as the Iroquois Confederacy) are the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora.

Location of originals note:

Grant of land copied in 1945 from the original in the Public Library of Ayr, Ont., Documents concerning Lord Selkirk's title and the letter from John Claus to John Small were copied in 1910 by R. Laidlaw from the Samuel P. Jarvis Papers (Metropolitan Toronto Public Library).
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Indians of North America Ontario

Indiens Amérique du Nord Ontario
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Private

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MG19-F8
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Volume [MG19 F 8]

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2 File number 1

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