Collection search - Surrender by the Moravians of the Thames of their Reserve in the townships of Zone and Orford - IT 210

GAD Reference number: IT 210;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 83
Aboriginal people(s): Delaware nation of Indians;
Aboriginal individual(s): Timothy Snake and others;
Other party(ies): R.T. Pennefather, T. Worthington, and F. Talfourd, of the Indian Department for Queen Victoria
Type of Document: Surrender of land - Docket title: "Surrender by the Moravians of the Thames of their Reserve in the townships of Zone and Orford"
Specific purpose(s): Surrender of reserve land to be sold based on six conditions relating to land and farm allotments, compensation for improvements lost, semi-annual payment of interest, etc. - See document
Land involved: Moravian Reserve, adjoining the Thames River in the Townships of Zone and Orford
Form: Manuscript original or duplicate

The document has 16 First Nations signators.

The document is laminated with tissue. Two holes in the top left corner were probably used to bind the surrender with the Order in Council.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, pages 215-216.

This document is also available on microfilm reel T-9939.

IT 211 - Original or duplicate surrender, IT 212 - Order in Council - copy, IT 213 - surrender - 15 May 1857, IT 214 - surrender - 15 May 1857