Collection search - Surrender of Land by the Ottawa and Chippewa Nations - IT 252

GAD Reference number: IT 252;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 116
Aboriginal people(s): Ottawa and Chippewa Nations;
Aboriginal individual(s): Shaboque and Nayquoscon of the Eagle Tribe of the Chippawas; Teikumegosson and Misquecawpomee; Equshawa and Niquelon of the Bear Tribe of the Ottawas; Kenjiwanoe of the Wolf Tribe; Pandiac and Assenowee;
Other party(ies): King George III
Type of Document: Surrender of land
Specific purpose(s): A surrender of land to the Crown "in full possession and seizin by allowing houses to be built on the premises"
Land involved: On the southside of the Detroit River and eastward from there seven miles and south from the north branch of the "River Canard" including an island in the mouth of the Detroit River known as "Bois Blanc" - See document
Form: Manuscript "a true copy of a copy"

Title supplied from contents.

The document has five doodem (clan, also known by the anglicized term totem) signatures, reproduced by a copyist.

The document is laminated with tissue. The edges are worn and yellowed. The fold lines are torn and small pieces are missing.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, pages 272-273.

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

IT 251 - Copy of a true copy surrender