Collection search - Sketch of the Indian Purchase at Penetanguishene - IT 018

GAD Reference number: IT 018;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 5
Aboriginal people(s): Chippeway Tribe or Nation of Indians;
Aboriginal individual(s): Chabondashoan, Aasance, Wabininquan, Ningawson, Omassanaksqutawah;
Other party(ies): W. Claus, SIA for the Crown
Type of Document: Map
Specific purpose(s): To illustrate land purchased from the Chippeway Tribe or Nation of Indians
Land involved: Land, water and islands in Lake Huron at Penetanguishene - See map
Form: Manuscript original
Maps: "Sketch of the Indian purchase at Penetanguishene, (coloured with Lake)"; A/Surveyor General D.W. Smith;

The document is a coloured map with pink, blue and yellow. It also has one red wax seal, five covered seals and five doodem (clan, also known by the anglicized term totem) signatures. The scale is 2 miles to an inch.

The map is laminated with tissue. Edges are torn and worn.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, pages 15-17.

Scale: 1:126 720 (2 miles to an inch).

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

No date (probably accompanies surrender of May 22, 1798).

IT 017 - Surrender, IT 019 - Provisional Surrender, IT 020 - Copy of Provisional Surrender