Collection search - Grant from the Indians to the Crown - District of Hesse - IT 003

GAD Reference number: IT 003;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 2
Aboriginal people(s): Ottawa, Chippawa, Pottawatamy, Huron Indians of Detroit;
Aboriginal individual(s): Egonch-e-onay, Wasson, Sjo-nesque, Sasta-ri-tsie and others;
Other party(ies): King George III
Type of Document: Surrender of land and extinguishment of title - Docket title: "Grant from the Indians to the Crown. District of Hesse"
Specific purpose(s): Surrender of tract of land for 1200 Pounds currency of the Province of Quebec at Five Shillings per Spanish Dollar for valuable wares and merchandise and reserving two specific tracts of land
Land involved: "District of Hesse" - See document
Form: Manuscript contemporary copy includes text, signators and witnesses

The document is written in brown ink. The pages are bound together by a single faded red ribbon.

The document is laminated with tissue. The ribbon has been dislodged from dual holes on the pages. There is also a brown discolouration along the fold lines.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, pages 1-5.

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

Signed date: 1790/05/19 (Copied and recorded 1790/06/22).

IT 002 - manuscript original, IT 004 - contemporary copy