Collection search - Agreement between Mr. Claus Esq. on the part of the Crown and the Chiefs of the Mississagua Nation - IT 041

GAD Reference number: IT 041;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 13A
Aboriginal people(s): Mississague Nation;
Aboriginal individual(s): Chechalk and others;
Other party(ies): Wm. Claus, DSGIA, for King George III
Type of Document: Provisional agreement to surrender land -- Docket title: "Agreement between Mr. Claus Esq. on the part of the Crown and the Chiefs of the Mississagua Nation".
Specific purpose(s): An agreement to surrender land, in consideration of 1000 pounds currency in goods valued when delivered, reserving for the Mississague certain fisheries, flats and low grounds for camps and cultivated lands and one mile each side of River Credit
Land involved: 70,784 acres west of the Toronto purchase of 1787 and north of Lake Ontario in Peel and Halton Counties. See map and document.
Form: Manuscript original

The document has five seals. One red wax seal is uncovered while four other seals are covered with paper. Four doodem (clan, also known by the anglicized term totem) signatures accompany the seals. A map, located in the top right corner is included in the text of provisional agreement. The pink outline shows the land to be surrendered. The blue colour is for lake Ontario. The rest is drawn in black ink. Attachment of correspondence, dated 18 June 1806, Wm. Stanton, Chief Clerk, President's Office, York to John Small, Esq. re: filing of "the original Provisional agreement for the Lands to be purchased from the Messessague Indians at the Head of Lake Ontario".

The document is laminated with tissue. The second sheet, also tissue laminated, is attached to a larger sheet, probably with glue. A large piece is missing on top left edge. The document is dirty and small pieces are missing where it was previously rolled.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, pages 35-36.

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

IT 042 - surrender, IT 043 - lease, IT 044 - map, IT 045 - correspondence