Collection search - The Chippewa Indians of the Thames propose that sixty-seven 1/2 acres of their Land be set apart for a Parsonage & School Lot at Lower Munsee - IT 145

GAD Reference number: IT 145;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 58-1/2 d
Aboriginal people(s): Chippewa;
Aboriginal individual(s): Chiefs John Riley, Miskokomon, James Muskununjie, Chicken Muskununjie, John Tummago, Joseph Canotung's, Eyanbanse, Captain Thomas, John Mundiway;
Other party(ies): Governor General
Type of Document: Provisional surrender of land - Docket title: "The Chippewa Indians of the Thames propose that sixty seven 1/2 [sic] acres of their Land be set a part for a Parsonage & School Lot at Lower Munsee"
Specific purpose(s): A proposal to grant a lease or license of occupation for certain lands to the Society connected to the Church of England
Land involved: 2 parcels of land totalling 67-1/2 acres situated at Lower Munsee, 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. The edges are worn and dirty.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, pages 145-146.

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

IT 143 - surrender for school, IT 144 - proposal for farm, IT 146 - surrender for burying ground, etc.