Recherche dans la collection - Surrender of 4800 acres of the South part of the Saugeening Tract to Her Majesty Queen Victoria In Trust - IT 162

GAD Reference number: IT 162;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 67
Aboriginal people(s): Chippewa Tribe of Indians;
Aboriginal individual(s): Jacob Metegob and others;
Other party(ies): Thomas G. Anderson, SIA for Queen Victoria
Type of Document: Surrender of land. Docket title: "Surrender of 4800 acres of the South part of the Saugeening Tract to Her Majesty Queen Victoria In Trust"
Specific purpose(s): Surrender of land to be sold and the proceeds to be invested for the benefit of the Tribe
Land involved: 4800 acres lying in the Counties of Grey and Bruce on the southern limit of the "Indian Tract" - See document
Form: Manuscript original or duplicate

The document has 13 doodem (clan, also known by the anglicized term totem) signatures and 12 red wax seals, with possibly an "S" stamp.

The document is laminated with tissue. It is torn along the fold lines and the edges worn and dirty. There are small pieces missing; and small brown circular stains opposite the wax seals.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, page 169.

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

IT 161 - original or duplicate