Collection search - Translation of the land grant to the Company of Jesus - IT 012

GAD Reference number: IT 012;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 4-1/2
Aboriginal people(s): Iroquois ;
Other party(ies): Louis, King of France and of Navarre and Ecclesiastics of the Company of Jesus.
Type of Document: Land grant
Specific purpose(s): Land grant by Crown to the Company of Jesus to carry out mission work with the Iroquois
Land involved: "'The Sault' containing two leagues of frontage ... opposite the Rapids of St. Louis, ...two Islands and Islets and the beach lying opposite and adjoining the lands of the said Prairie de la Magdelaine"
Form: Manuscript translation

Title supplied from contents.

The document is laminated with tissue.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, pages 13-14.

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

Dated 29 May 1680; "Letters Patent ... registered ... at Quebec" on 24 October 1680.

IT 011 - French copy of 29 May 1680, IT 013 - French copy of 31 October 1680, IT 014 - English translation of 31 October 1680, IT 015 - French copy of 17 October 1717, IT 016 - English translation of 17 October 1717