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GAD Reference number: IT 143;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 58-1/2 b
Aboriginal people(s): Chippewa Indians;
Aboriginal individual(s): John Riley, Muskokomon, James Maskunuge, Chicken Maskunuge, John Tummago, Joseph Canotang, Enawbanse, Captain Thomas, John Mundiway;
Other party(ies): Queen Victoria
Type of Document: Surrender of land. Docket title: "Surrender to the Crown of four acres of land by the Chippewa Indians of the Thames for the purpose of an Industrial School being established thereon"
Specific purpose(s): Surrender of land in order to establish an industrial school by the Canadian Wesleyan Methodist Conference and Missionary Society for the use and benefit of supporting Indian Tribes
Land involved: 4 acres, located in the Township of Carradoc, London District - See document
Form: Manuscript original

The document has eight doodem (clan, also known by the anglicized term totem) signatures and nine covered seals.

The document is laminated with tissue. There is a light yellow stain running vertically on all sides.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, pages 143-144.

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

IT 144 - proposal for farm, IT 145 - proposal for parsonage, IT 146 - surrender for burying ground, etc.