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GAD Reference number: IT 524;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 104
Aboriginal people(s): Six Nations Indians of the Grand River;
Aboriginal individual(s): Chief Nicholas Burning and others;
Other party(ies): S.I. Jones and J.T. Gilkison for Her Majesty Queen Victoria
Type of Document: Surrender. Docket title: "Surrender by the Six Nations Indians of 5 Acres of lands in Township of Tuscarora in Trust for a church"
Specific purpose(s): A release of lands to the Crown "in trust to the New England Society for the benefit of the Six Nations Indians for the uses of a church, Parsonage, and Burial ground in connection with the church of England but for no other purpose."
Land involved: Southeast corner of the south half of Lot 26 in the third concession of the Township of Tuscarora, County of Brant containing 5 acres
Form: Contemporary Copy

Document has one red wax seal. A green ribbon is attached to the seal.

A brown stain, possibly from the wax seal, is at the lower left corner of page one. Edges are slightly worn and brownish.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, pages 248-250.

This document is also available on microfilm reel T-17279.

RG10 Volume 11964 - Attachments including: Affidavit of 15 April 1935; Indenture of 5 October 1934; "Brief History of the New England Company Holdings on Six Nations..." of 24 August 1964.