72 CANADIAN LOCAL HISTORY. 



200 acres are laid out on each, side of Yonge Street, having a width, 

 of a quarter of a mile each, on the street ; in general, the land is 

 excellent, and fit for every purpose of husbandry. 



sturgeon Bay, the Head or south-westernmost angle of the said Bay being called by the 

 Indians Opetiqnayawsing ; then North 70 degrees West to a Bay of Lake Huron, called by the 

 Indians Nottoway Sague Bay; thence following the shores of Lake Huron according to the 

 different courses and windings of the said Nottoway Sague Bay ; Penetanguishene Harbour 

 and Gloucester or Sturgeon Bay, sometimes called also Matchadash, to the place of beginning, 

 containing all the lands to the northward of the said line, running North 70 degrees West, and 

 lying between it and the waters of Lake Huron, together with the Islands in the said Harbour 

 of Penetanguishene. To have and to hold the said parcel or tract of land, together with all th« 

 woods and waters thereon lying and being, unto His said Britannic Majesty King George the 

 Third, his heirs and successors for ever, free and clear of all claims, rights, privileges and 

 emoluments which we the said Chiefs, Warriors and People of the said Chippeway Tribe or 

 Nation might have before the execution of these Presents, and free and clear of any pretended 

 Claims, rights, privileges or emoluments to which our Children, Descendants and Posterity 

 may hereafter make to the same. Hereby renouncing and forever absolving ourselves, and 

 our children, descendants and posterity, of all title to the soil, woods and waters of the above 

 described parcel or tract of land in favour of His said Britannic Majesty, his heirs and suc- 

 cessors forever. In Witness whereof we have, for ourselves and the rest of our Tribe or 

 Nation, hereto set our marks, seals and signatures, tliis twenty-second day of May, and in the 

 Thirty-eighth year of the Reign of oui- Great Father, King George the Third, at York, in the 

 Province aforesaid, having first heard this Instrument openly read and rehearsed in our own 

 language, and fully approved by ourselves and our Nation. Signed, William Clans, Superin- 

 tendent Indian Affairs, on behalf of the Crown, (L.S.); Chabondasheam, (L.S.) [figure of a 

 Reindeer] ; Aasance, (L.S.) [figure of an Otter] ; Wabininquon, (L.S) [figure of a PDie] ; Nin- 

 gawson, (L.S.) [figure of a Reindeer] ; Omassanahsqutawah, (L.S.) [figure of a Reindeer.] In 

 the presence of William WiUcocks, Commissioner on behalf of the Pro\dnce ; Alexander 

 Bujrns, Commissioner on behalf of tlie Province ; Samuel Smith, Major Q. Rangers ; Arthur 

 Holdsworth Brooking, Lieut. Q. Rangers ; John McGill, Adjutant Q. Rangers ; J. Givins, 

 Agent of Indians ; W. Johnson Cliew, Indian Dejiartment ; George Cown, Indian Department. 

 To this Instrument was annexed a plan of the Lands and Harbour purchased, ai^d schedule of 

 the goods given as an equivalent for the same. 



"We do hereby certify tliat the following Goods were delivered in our presence to the 

 Chippeway Nation, subscribers to the within Deed, being the consideration therein mentioned, 

 as sent from the general Store by order of the Commander-in-Chief: — Twenty pair Blankets of 

 2J Points, 16s. 6d.— £16 10s. Twenty-five pair Blankets of 2 Points, 12s.— £15. Seventeen 

 pair Blankets of IJ Points, 9s. 9d. — £8 5s. 9d. Pour pieces Blue Strouds, eighty-four yards, 

 117s. a Piece— £23 Ss. Forty-four Pounds Brass Kettle, 2s. 4Jd.— £5 4s. 6d. Four Pieces 

 Calico, 18J yards each is seventy-four yards, 55s. 6d. per piece — £11 2s. Three Pieces Linen, 

 25 yards each is seventy-five yards, 75s. per piece. — £11 5s. Three Pieces Calimanco, 30 yards, 

 is ninety yards, 54s. 9d. per piece — £8 4s. 3d. Nine dozen Butchers' Knives at 48. 6d. per 

 dozen — £2 Os. 6d. Amounting in the whole to One Hundred and One Pounds, Quebec currency. 

 Signed, William WiUcocks," &c. 



(To le continued. J 



