Collection search - Provisional Agreement with the Mississagues of the River Credit, for the surrender of 648,000 Acres of Land - IT 059

GAD Reference number: IT 059;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 19
Aboriginal people(s): Messessague Nation;
Aboriginal individual(s): Chief Adjutant, Weygishigomin, Cabibonike, Pagitaniquatoibo and Noiwahkitakquibi;
Other party(ies): Hon. Wm. Claus, DSGIA for His Majesty
Type of Document: Provisional Agreement to surrender land - Docket title: "Provisional Agreement with the Mississagues of the River Credit, for the surrender of 648,000 Acres of Land "
Specific purpose(s): In consideration of a yearly sum of 522 pounds 10 shillings currency in goods, the Indians agreed to surrender certain lands
Land involved: 648,000 acres "in the Home District, called the Mississagua tract" - See document
Form: Manuscript original

The document has 11 seals. One is a wax seal, the other 10 are covered. There are also 10 doodem (clan, also known by the anglicized term totem) signatures, five on each page. Possibly, the five on the first page are originals while the five on page two are reproduced. "Dead" is written in pencil beside one doodem signature.

The document is laminated with tissue. The ink is faded. The document is dirty along fold lines.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, pages 47-48.

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

IT 060 - "true copy"