Collection search - Map of land purchased from the Chippewas by Alexander McKee - IT 022

GAD Reference number: IT 022;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 6
Aboriginal people(s): Chippawa;
Aboriginal individual(s): Wasson and others;
Other party(ies): Alexander McKee, for the King
Type of Document: Map; Title: "[N.B. The Land marked] pink was [purchased] from the Indians (Chip[pawas]) by Alexander McKee Esq. [on] behalf of the King as by the annexed deed bearing date 7th of September 1796"
Specific purpose(s): To illustrate the lands purchased by the Crown from the Indians
Land involved: Situated on the north shore of the River Thames or River La Tranche in Middlesex and Oxford Counties
Form: Manuscript original

Title supplied from content.

A map drawn with pink colouring is in the top portion of the document. There are also 16 doodem (clan, also known by the anglicized term totem) signatures.

The map is laminated with tissue. The top edge has many large pieces missing. The map is dirty and torn along old fold lines, and pieces are missing. There are also several small ink smears.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, pages 17-19.

Scale: 1:506 880.

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

No date (probably accompanies surrender of September 7, 1796).

IT 021 - original surrender, IT 023 - duplicate surrender, IT 024 - duplicate map