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The Crawford Purchase
Photos by contributor Wayne Adam - Posted December, 2009
Plaque Location
The County of Frontenac
The City of Kingston
On a wall to the left of the entrance gate at
Tete du Pont Barracks at 1 Ontario Street
east of Barrack Street
Coordinates: N 44 14.004 W 76 28.709 |
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Plaque 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 for 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 Loyalists and Britain's Indian allies who had been forced to leave their homes in the new United States.
Another plaque at this location
Fort Frontenac
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The King's Royal Regiment of New York
United Empire Loyalists
Early Land Survey in Ontario
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First Nations
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Kingston Plaques
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