Collection search - Articles of a Provincial Agreement with the Chippawa Nation - IT 055

GAD Reference number: IT 055;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 18
Aboriginal people(s): Chippawa Nation of Indians;
Aboriginal individual(s): Chiefs Musquakie (Yellow Head), Thaqueticum, Muskigonce and Manitouabe;
Other party(ies): Hon. Wm. Claus, DSGIA for His Majesty
Type of Document: Provisional agreement to surrender lands; Docket title: "Articles of a Provincial Agreement ".
Specific purpose(s): In consideration of 1200 pounds currency in goods paid yearly.
Land involved: 1,592,000 acres "bounded by the District of London on the West, by Lake Huron on the North by the Penetanguishene purchase (made in 1805) on the East" and by the shores of Kempenfelt Bay, Lake Simcoe and Cooks Bay and the Holland River - See document
Form: Manuscript original

Title supplied from contents.

The document has four doodem (clan, also known by the anglicized term totem) signatures, and possibly one is missing. It also has six seals. One is a red wax seal. The rest are covered.

The document is laminated with tissue. It is badly worn along fold lines. Pieces are missing, it is torn and dirty. There is a light stain on the reverse side. Two black marks on both face and reverse. Illegible pencil writing is present on the left side of page one.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, page 47.

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

IT 056 - contemporary copy, IT 057 - copy, IT 058 - unknown