Collection search - The Mississagua Nation of Indians to His Majesty - Lease for a Year - IT 043

GAD Reference number: IT 043;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 14
Aboriginal people(s): Mississague Nation;
Aboriginal individual(s): Chechalk, Quenepenon, Wabukanyne, Okemapenesse, Wabenose, Kebonecence, Osenego, Acheton, Patequan and Wabakagega;
Other party(ies): King George III
Type of Document: Indenture for lease of land - Docket title: "The Mississagua Nation of Indians to His Majesty - Lease for a Year"
Specific purpose(s): Agreement to lease land for one year in consideration of five shillings a piece of lawful money
Land involved: 85,000 acres (including all the woods and waters thereon) situated in the Home District as described - (See document)
Form: Manuscript original

The document has 10 doodem (clan, also known by the anglicized term totem) signatures. There is also a red wax seal on page three and 10 covered seals.

The document is laminated with tissue. Its left edges are torn, worn, dirty, and there are pieces missing. There is a brown stain on page two, lower central location opposite location of wax seal. There is also one brown circular stain on each sheet. The top left corner of page three has remains of a red wax stain.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, pages 36-37.

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

IT 041 - provisional agreement, IT 042 - surrender, IT 044 - map, IT 045 - correspondence