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!ENTRY
!YEAR
!MONTH
!DAY
!NO.
!FIRSTNATIONSURRENDERING
!OTHERSURRENDERER
!LOCATIONNAME
!COUNTY
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|1882
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|6
|296
|POTTAWATTOMIES OF WALPOLE ISLAND
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|ST. ANN'S ISLAND IN LAKE ST CLAIR
|LAMBTON COUNTY
|(POTTAWATTAMIES OF WALPOLE ISLAND, ONT) ST. ANN'S ISLAND, LAKE ST. CLAIR, LAMBTON COUNTY. TO BE LEASED FOR SHOOTING AND FISHING PURPOSES
|30
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|1520
|1882
|2
|6
|296
|CHIPPEWAS AND POTTOWATTOMIES OF WALPOLE ISLAND
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|ST. ANN'S ISLAND
|LAMBTON COUNTY
|BY CHIPPEWAS AND POTTAWATTAMIES OF WALPOLE ISLAND. TO BE LEASED FOR SHOOTING AND FISHING PURPOSES
|30
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|1601
|1882
|2
|6
|296
|CHIPPEWAS OF WALPOLE ISLAND
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|ST. ANN'S ISLAND ON LAKE ST CLAIR
|LAMBTON COUNTY
|ST. ANN'S ISLAND AND MARSHES, LAKE ST. CLAIR, LAMBTON COUNTY. TO BE LEASED FOR SHOOTING AND FISHING PURPOSES
|30
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|1779
|1882
|2
|6
|296
|CHIPPEWAS AND POTTOWATTOMIES OF WALPOLE ISLAND
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|ST. ANNS, LAKE ST. CLAIR
|LAMBTON COUNTY
|BY CHIPPEWAS AND POTTAWATTAMIES OF WALPOLE ISLAND. TO BE LEASED FOR SHOOTING AND FISHING PURPOSES
|30
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[[File:296 (2).png|thumb|244x244px|pg.1<ref>Canada. Indian Treaties and Surrenders from No. 281 to No. 483. CIHM/ICMH Digital Series = CIHM/ICMH Collection Numérisée. Ottawa: C.H. Parmelee, 1912.</ref>]]
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== Transcribed Source Document ==
No. 296.

KNOW ALL MEN by these Presents, that we, the Chiefs and principal men and Warriors of the Chippewa & Pottowattomie Indians of Walpole Island, being this day assembled in our Council House in presence of our visiting Superintendent—and referring to a Meeting of Council held at this place on the 18th day of March A.D. 1880—at which Meeting it was duly resolved by a majority of those present at said meeting—that the Assent of these Bands should be given to the issue of a Lease by the Indian Department in favor of Certain Gentlemen who had applied therefor—of Certain Lands & Marshes hereinafter described—and Considering that Consent thereto was then and there duly given—

We now do Surrender & yield up to our Sovereign Lady the Queen, and her Successors—all that certain parcel or tract of Land and Marsh, situated in the Province of Ontario, and County of Kent, bounded by the Chenail Ecarté, Johnston’s Channel, and the navigable waters of Lake St. Clair; and which may be described and known as St. Ann’s Island, and the Marshes adjacent thereto.

To the end that said described territory may be leased to the Applicants for the purpose of Shooting & fishing for such term and on such Conditions as the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs may Consider best for our advantage—

AND having heard read and explained a Lease executed by the Deputy Superintendent of Indian Affairs in favor of Christopher Robinson Esquire, of the City of Toronto, and certain other Gentlemen in such Lease named—and believing that such Lease was executed in good faith and in accordance with our Consent duly given in Council as aforesaid—

We hereby accept of said Lease and Confirm and establish the same.

In Testimony Whereof we have hereto set our hands and Seals this sixth day of February A.D. 1882.

Done in the name and on behalf of the Chippewas and Pottowattomies of Walpole Island.

Andrew Jacobs

Sec. Pottowattomies

J. G. Bird, Chief [L.S.]

Ash Kee Bee [L.S.]

Chief, Pottowattomies [L.S.]

Joseph Kowsod [L.S.]

James Saugee [L.S.]

I. S. Kiyoshk [L.S.]

Charles Kiyoshk [L.S.]

Joseph Isaac

Councillor, Pottowattomies [L.S.]

We, Ebenezer Watson, of the Town of Sarnia in the County of Lambton, Indian Superintendent, and Joshua G. Bird, Head Chief of the Chippewas of Walpole Island—Make Oath and say—That at a General Council of the Indians of Walpole Island—held on the 6th day of February A.D. 1882—the Consent given by a Majority of the Indians in General Council Assembled on the 18th day of March A.D. 1880, to the leasing of St. Ann’s Island and adjacent Marshes, to Charles Robinson Esquire, of the City of Toronto, and Certain other gentlemen therein named—was Confirmed—and the Deed of Surrender annexed hereto, freely, and by a large Majority, approved—And that with the full Consent and approval of the Majority of Said Council—Said Deed of Surrender was duly Signed and Sealed by the Chiefs and Councillors whose Signatures are thereto affixed.

Sworn before me at Sombra in the County of Lambton, this 9th day of February 1882.

Ebenezer Watson

J. G. Bird, Chief

P. W. Merritt

J.P.

Surrender accepted by Order in Council of 3rd April 1882.

John J. McGee

Assist. Clerk P. C.<references />

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