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ENTRY YEAR MONTH DAY NO. FIRSTNATIONSURRENDERING OTHERSURRENDERER LOCATIONNAME COUNTY INDEXTEXT PAGE VOLUME
1440 1892 6 28 320 ONEIDAS OF THE THAMES DELAWARE TOWNSHIP MIDDLESEX COUNTY THE WHOLE RESERVE. TO BE LEASED FOR SHOOTING PURPOSES 70
1625 1892 6 28 320 ONEIDA BAND DELAWARE TOWNSHIP MIDDLESEX COUNTY BY ONEIDA BAND. SHOOTING PRIVILEGE OVER RESERVE FOR TEN YEARS 70

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Date: 1892/06/28

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Transcribed Source Document

No. 320.


Know all Men by These Presents, THAT WE, the undersigned Chief and Principal men of The Oneidas of the Thames Band of Indians resident on our Reserve in the Township of Delaware in the County of Middlesex in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, for and acting on behalf of the whole people of our said Band in Council assembled, Do hereby release, remise, surrender, quit claim and yield up unto Our Sovereign Lady the Queen, her Heirs and Successors ALL AND SINGULAR the shooting privileges on and over that certain parcel or tract of land and premises, situate, lying and being in the Township of Delaware in the County of Middlesex and Province of Ontario and being composed of the Oneida Indian Reserve in the aforesaid Township of Delaware.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto Her said Majesty the Queen, her Heirs and Successors, in trust to lease the same for shooting purposes for a term of ten years, and upon such terms as the Government of the Dominion of Canada may deem most conducive to our welfare and that of our people.

AND upon the further condition that all moneys received from the leasing thereof, shall, after deducting the usual proportion for expenses of management, be paid to us and Our descendants Annually or Semi-Annually.

AND WE, the said Chief and Principal men of the said Oneidas of the Thames do on behalf of our people and for ourselves, hereby ratify and confirm, and promise to ratify and confirm, whatever the said Government may do, or cause to be lawfully done, in connection with the leasing of the Shooting privileges on and over our said Reserve.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals this 28th day of June in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Ninety-Two.

Signed, Sealed and Delivered in the presence of us.

Thomas Gordon

J. H. Fraser

John Sickles


John Sickles [L.S.]

Moses Brown [L.S.]

John Ninham [L.S.]

Moses Scanodo [L.S.]

Baptiste Powles [L.S.]

John Ninham [L.S.]

Washington Doxtator [L.S.]

John Charles [L.S.]

Louis Scannado [L.S.]

William Doxtator [L.S.]


DOMINION OF CANADA,

Province of Ontario

County of Middlesex

To Wit:


Personally appeared before me, Thomas Gordon of Strathroy in the County of Middlesex in the Province of Ontario, Indian Agent, and John Sickles Chief of the said Band of Indians of the Oneidas of the Thames.


And the said Thomas Gordon for himself saith:—

That the annexed Release or Surrender was assented to by a majority of the male members of the said Band of Indians of the Oneida Reserve of the full age of twenty-one years then present.

That such assent was given at a meeting or council of the said Band summoned for that purpose and according to their Rules.

That he was present at such meeting or council and heard such assent given.

That he was duly authorized to attend such council or meeting by the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs.

That no Indian was present or voted at said council or meeting who was not a member of the Band or interested in the land mentioned in the said Release or Surrender.

And the said John Sickles says:

That the annexed Release or Surrender was assented to by him and a majority of the male members of the said Band of Indians of the full age of twenty-one years then present.

That such assent was given at a meeting or council of the said Band of Indians summoned for that purpose, according to their Rules, and held in the presence of the said John Sickles ;

That no Indian was present or voted at such council or meeting who was not a habitual resident on the Reserve of the said Band of Indians or interested in the land mentioned in the said Release or Surrender.

That he is a Chief of the said Band of Indians and entitled to vote at the said meeting or council.

Sworn before me by the said Deponents Thomas Gordon and John Sickles at the City of London in the County of Middlesex this 2nd day of July A.D., 1892.

Thomas Gordon

John Sickles


G. Elliot

Judge County Court

County of Middlesex


Recorded 13th August, 1892.

Lib: 134, Fol: 503.

L. A. Cattellier

Dep: Registrar General of Canada.

  1. Canada. Indian Treaties and Surrenders from No. 281 to No. 483. CIHM/ICMH Digital Series = CIHM/ICMH Collection Numérisée. Ottawa: C.H. Parmelee, 1912.