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GAD Reference number: IT 146;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 58-1/2 e
Aboriginal people(s): Chippewa Indians;
Aboriginal individual(s): John Riley, Miskokomon, James Muskenonge, Chicken Muskenonge, John Tummago, Joseph Kanotang, Eyaawbanse, Captain Thomas, John Mundaway;
Other party(ies): Queen Victoria
Type of Document: Surrender of land. Docket title: "Surrender to the Crown of four acres of Land by the Chippewa Indians of the Thames for the purpose of a Burial ground etc."
Specific purpose(s): A surrender of land in order that it may be granted in fee simple or otherwise for the Episcopalian Church and burying ground
Land involved: 4 acres situated in the Township of Carradoc, London District on the Lower Munsee - See document
Form: Manuscript original

The document has eight doodem (clan, also known by the anglicized term totem) signatures and nine covered seals.

The document is laminated with tissue. The edges are worn and dirty. There are also ink smears.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, page 146.

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

IT 143 - surrender for school, IT 144 - proposal for farm, IT 145 - proposal for parsonale