Collection search - Indian Deed of Sale for the Island of Michilimakinac - IT 001

GAD Reference number: IT 001;

Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 1;
Aboriginal people(s): Chipwas;

Aboriginal individual(s): Chiefs Kitchi Negon (Grand Sable); Peuanas; Keusse; Magouseihigan;

Other party(ies): Lieutenant Governor Sinclair for King George III
Type of Document: Surrender of land and extinguishment of title - Docket title: "Indian Deed of Sale for the Island of Michilimakinac"
Specific purpose(s): Sale of island of Michilimakinac for 5000 pounds New York currency

Land involved: Island of "Michilimakinak" or as called by "Canadians La Grosse Isle (situate in that Strait which joins the Lakes Huron and Michigan)";
Form: Manuscript original

The treaty document is on irregular-shaped parchment. There are 5 five reddish-orange wax seals, which have cracked, on the document. Running from the top to the bottom on the left side, there is a silver-grey ribbon which is torn in two pieces. There are five reddish-orange doodem (clan, also known by the anglicized term totem) signatures.

There is one small hole, roughly in the centre, of the document. Also note a spot, or random fading, due to water staining.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 reprint), vol. 1, p.1.

This document is also available on microfilm reel T-9938.