Recherche dans la collection - The Chiefs of the Mississague Nation of Indians to His Majesty George III - Release for a Year of 428 Acres of Lands - IT 054

GAD Reference number: IT 054;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 17
Aboriginal people(s): Mississague Nation;
Aboriginal individual(s): Misiquescon, Indanwaywey, Kaybeshkang;
Other party(ies): King George III
Type of Document: Lease agreement, map and surrender
Specific purpose(s): To release land in consideration of a specified amount of money
Land involved: 428 acres fronting on the Bay of Quinte at the mouth of the Moira River lying in Thurlow township, in the Midland District of Upper Canada - See documents
Form: Manuscript original or duplicate
Maps: Title--"Plan shewing the relative situation of the Indian Burying Ground in the Township of Thurlow"; Surveyor General: Thos. Ridout; Scale: 20 chains to 1 inch; located on page five; coloured with blue, yellow and brown; 42 x 33 cm (16-1/2" x 13")

Most of the document's top edges are scalloped. All four sheets are bound together by a pink ribbon in the top left corner. Page three has three doodem (clan, also known by the anglicized term totem) signatures, one red wax seal and three covered seals. Page five has a map coloured blue, yellow and brown. Page seven has three doodem signatures and three red wax seals with cross-hatching pattern placed onto pink ribbons. The bottom edge of this page leaf is turned up and held by two parchment ribbons. The doodem signatures and seals of this page are spaced across hem of the page. Page eight has a pink ribbon and a large red wax seal covering a blue-green coloured ribbon.

The document is laminated with tissue. Sheet 1: the top and bottom edges are edge. The top edge is possibly scalloped. There is a small hole in the centre and the right edge has missing pieces. Sheet 2: the bottom edge is very torn and pieces are missing. Sheet 4: has yellowed parchment, faded writing, and is brittle.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, pages 45-46.

Scale: 1:15 840.

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

IT 051 - lease agreement, IT 052 - map, IT 053 - surrender