December 25, 1792
Dear Journal,
The site John Graves Simcoe chose was thought to be an unused land space, but I have a secret. I thought that is was strange that the land was cleared and flattened although the land around this spot was rolling and full of trees, so I went asking around and I figured out that the land was used by the French and a First Nation group called Teiaigon. ln 1620, the French built a fort there. Before that the first nations ruled the land. Don’t tell Simcoe, I don’t want to crush his dreams.
Also Sir John Johnson, another one of my friends, sent me a letter that probably was supposed to come around 1790. This is what it says:
Good friend,
I have had quite an interesting time the past couple of years. Starting with my consultation with the Mississauga at the bay of Quinte, we agreed to a sale of the land along the north shore along Lake Ontario that includes both sides of the Humber River and Lake Simcoe. But the crown made a mistake when purchasing the land. The deed was not found for a year, and when it was found it was blank! So technically we did not purchase the land. When the crown figured out what they did wrong, they told Mississauga and redid the purchase. The government said that the new agreement was a conformation of the previous one. They gave us more land than the first one (hey not a problem).
Until next time
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