Der Graf von Selkirk und Landerwerb entlang des Red River, 1811

Indenture of Sale from the Hudson's Bay Company to the Earl of Selkirk, 1811

THIS INDENTURE made the twelfth day of June, in the fifty-first year of the reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven, between the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England, trading into Hudson's Bay, of the one part, and the Right Honorable Thomas Earl of Selkirk, of the other part : Whereas the said Governor and Company are seized to them and their successors in fee simple, as absolute lords and proprietors of all the lands and territories situate upon the coasts and confines of the seas, streights, bays, lakes, rivers, creeks, and sounds, within the entrance of the streights commonly called Hudson's Streights, in the north-west part of America, and which lands and territories are reputed as one of the plantations or colonies belonging or annexed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and are called Rupert's Land. And whereas the said Governor and Company have, for divers good and valuable causes and considerations them thereunto moving, agreed to convey and assure a certain tract or parcel of the said lands and territories hereinafter described, unto and to the use of the said Earl of Selkirk, his heirs and assigns, under and subject to certain conditions hereinafter expressed and contained. Now, therefore, this indenture witnesseth, that in pursuance of such agreement, and in consideration of the sum of ten shillings of lawful money of Great Britain to the said Governor and Company, well and truly paid by the said Earl of Selkirk, at or before the execution of these presents (the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged), and for divers good and other valuable causes and considerations, them, the said Governor and Company hereunto moving, the said Governor and Company have given, granted, aliened, enfeoffed and confirmed, and by these presents do give, grant, alien, enfeoff, and confirm unto the said Earl of Selkirk, his heirs and assigns, all that tract of land or territory, being within and forming part of the aforesaid lands and territories of the said Governor and Company, bounded by an imaginary line running as follows, that is to say : beginning on the western shore of Lake Winnipie, otherwise Winnipey, at a point in fifty-two degrees, and thirty north latitude, and thence running due west to the Lake Winnepigoos, otherwise called Little Winnipey, then in a southerly direction through the said lake so as to strike its western shore in latitude fifty-two degrees, then due west to the place where the parallel of fifty-two degrees north latitude intersects the western branch of Red River, otherwise called Assiniboyne River, then due south from that point of intersection to the height of land which separates the waters running into Hudson's Bay, from those of the Missouri and Mississippi, then in an easterly direction along the said height of land to the source of the River Winnipie, or Winnipey (meaning by such last named river, the principal branch of the waters which unite in Lake Saginagus), then along the main stream of the waters and the middle of the several lakes through which they flow to the mouth of the Winnipie River, and thence in a northerly direction through the middle of Lake Winnipie to the place of beginning. In witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written. (Signed) SELKIRK. [L.S.] ALEXANDER LEAN, [L.S.] Secretary of the Hudson's Bay Company. Indorsed. - Sealed under the common seal of the within mentioned Governor and Company, and signed and delivered by Alexander Lean, their Secretary, pursuant to their order and appointment, and signed, sealed and delivered by the within mentioned Thomas, Earl of Selkirk (being first duly stamped), in the presence of Alexander Mundell, Parliament Street, Westminster. Edward Roberts, Hudson's Bay House. Suit l'attestation écrite et assermentie du premier de ces decuy temoins, Alex. Mundell, en presence du Maire de Londres. Sworn at the Mansion House London, this twenty-third day (Signed) Alexander Mundell. of April, 1819, before me, John Aikins, [L.S.] Mayor.

Nachweis:

Morris, Alexander, ed., The treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories, including the negotiations on which they were based, and other information relating thereto, (Toronto: Belfords, Clarke &. Co, 1880), 300-301.
https://ia700406.us.archive.org/18/items/cihm_14955/cihm_14955.pdf

Quellenbeschreibung

Mit der Unterzeichnung dieses Vertrags verzichteten die Indianerstämme der Chippewa und Cree auf Rechtsansprüche über das Territorium entlang des Red River. Sie traten das Gebiet an den Earl of Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, ab, der stellvertretend für die britische Krone als Vertragspartner auftrat.