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ENTRY | YEAR | MONTH | DAY | NO. | FIRSTNATIONSURRENDERING | OTHERSURRENDERER | LOCATIONNAME | COUNTY | INDEXTEXT | PAGE | VOLUME |
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832 | 1838 | 6 | 15 | 49 | MISSISSAGUA | WAHBOOSE OR WAUPOOS ISLAND | PRINCE EDWARD | WAHBOOSE OR WAUPOOS ISLAND, PRINCE EDWARD OR SOUTH BAY, MARYSBURGH TOWNSHIP, PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY | 119 | I | |
1354 | 1838 | 6 | 15 | 49 | MISSISSAGUA | WAUPOOS OR WAHBOOSE ISLAND, PRINCE EDWARD OR SOUTH BAY, MARYSBURGH TOWNSHIP | PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY | BY MISSISSAGUA INDIANS | 119 | I |
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No. 49.
Know All Men by These Presents, that we, John Sunday, Jacob Sunday, Jacob Pazhegezhick, James Sahgahnahquottwabe, Jacob Pahtewun, and James Nahwahquaskum, Sachems and Chief Warriors of the Mississagua Tribe of Indians, of Kingston and the Bay of Quinté, now settled in the Township of Alnwick, in the District of Newcastle, in the Province of Upper Canada, in consideration of the trust and confidence we repose in Her Majesty Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland, do hereby surrender and yield up to Her said Majesty, Her heirs and successors, all that tract of land situate in the Midland District, and long known as Wahboose Island, to hold the same to Her said Majesty, Her heirs and successors, forever, the said island containing six hundred acres, be the same more or less. And we do hereby make this surrender to Her Majesty for the purpose of enabling Her said Majesty to sell and dispose of the said island for the highest price that can be had for the same, for our benefit and advantage. And we do hereby declare our wish and desire that the money arising from the sale of the said island should be invested in good and safe Government or other securities at legal interest, which interest to be paid to us from time to time as we may require it.
In Witness Whereof, we, the said Sachems and Principal Warriors aforesaid have hereunto set our hands and seals this fifteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.
Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of:
Charles Anderson
Sylvester Hurlburt
John Sunday (totem) [L.S.]
Jacob Sunday (totem) [L.S.]
Jacob Pazhegezhick (totem) [L.S.]
James Sahgahnahquottwabe (totem) [L.S.]
Jacob Pahtewun (totem) [L.S.]
James Nahwahquaskum (totem) [L.S.]
- ↑ Canada Department of Indian Affairs. Indian Treaties and Surrenders, from 1680-1890. Ottawa: S.E. Dawson printer to the King’s most excellent majesty, 1905.