Collection search - Provisional Agreement to Purchase from the Chippewa Indians a certain Tract of their Land between the Lakes Simcoe and Huron - IT 062

GAD Reference number: IT 062;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 20 [?]
Aboriginal people(s): Chippawaw Nation;
Aboriginal individual(s): Kinaybicolnini and others;
Other party(ies): Wm. Claus, DSGDIGIA for King George III
Type of Document: Provisional Agreement to surrender land Docket title: "Provisional Agreement to Purchase from the Chippewa Indians a certain Tract of their Land between the Lakes Simcoe and Huron"
Specific purpose(s): In consideration of 4000 pounds currency in goods to be paid in yearly payments of one thousand pounds each, the Indians "will execute a regular deed for the Conveyance of the Lands described"
Land involved: 250,000 acres between Lake Simcoe and Lake Huron - See document
Form: Manuscript original
Maps: N/A - document does indicate "Lands described in the subjoined plan with the black lines..."

The document has eight doodem (clan, also known by the anglicized term totem) signatures and nine seals. One is a large red wax seal while the other eight six seals are covered.

The document is laminated with tissue. It is also dirty and lightly stained along fold lines. There is one hole through a seal.

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

IT 063 - proceedings of meeting, IT 064 - covering correspondence