The Crawford Purchase
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N 44° 14.021 W 076° 28.712
18T E 381925 N 4898890
Crawford Purchase (E), ON: Purchase of land for Loyalist settlers from the Mississauga, 1783
Waymark Code: WM20G7
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 08/14/2007
Views: 78
Marker Text:
In October 1783, at Carleton Island near here, Captain William Redford Crawford of the King's Royal Regiment of New York met with the local Mississauga Indians led by the elderly Mynass. Crawford, acting for the British government, purchased from the Mississaugas fro some clothing, ammunition and coloured cloth a large tract of land east of the Bay of Quinte. The land was subsequently settled by United Empire Loyalsists and Britain's Indian allies who had been forced to leave their homes in the new United States.
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