The lands allotted were defined in the proclamation as ‘six miles deep from each side of the river, beginning at Lake Erie and extending in that proportion to the head of the said river’. Here, in the present counties of Brant and Haldimand, many tribesmen of the Six Nations settled. Brant county and its principal town Brantford recall the memory of the Mohawk leader, and such villages as Cayuga, Oneida, and Onondaga testify that other members of the old confederacy, in addition to the Mohawks, crossed over to British soil. Within a few years difficulties arose as to the intent of the grant, the Indians, headed by Brant, wishing to sell some of the lands; a further and more formal document, issued by Governor Simcoe in 1793, did not settle the question; and eventually a large part of the area included in the original grant was parted with for money payments which were invested for the benefit of the Indians. A report made in July, 1828, and included in a Parliamentary Blue Book of 1834[187], stated that the number of the Indian settlers on the Grand river was at that date under 2,000 souls: that ‘they are now considered as having retained about 260,000 acres of land, mostly of the best quality. Their possessions were formerly more extensive, but large tracts have been sold by them with the permission of H. M.’s Government, the moneys arising from which sales were either funded in England or lent on interest in this country. The proceeds amount to about £1,500 p.a.’. Thus a large number of the Six Nation Indians adhered to the English connexion and left their old homes for ever: most of them became members of the Church of England, and the first church built in the Province of Ontario is said to have been one for the Mohawks.[188] In the second American war, as in the first, they remained faithful as subjects and allies; and to this day the descendants of the once formidable confederacy hold fast to the old-time covenant which their forefathers made with the English King. FOOTNOTES: [165] The text of the treaty is given in Appendix I. [166] See the text of the treaty in Appendix I. [167] From _The Loyalists in the American Revolution_, by C. H. Van Tyne. Macmillan & Co., 1902, p. 295. The author gives in the Appendices to his book a list of the laws passed against the Loyalists in the various states. [168] American creditors sued Loyalist debtors in England, while the Loyalists’ property in America was confiscated. [169] Act 23 Geo. III, cap. 80. [170] 28 Geo. III, cap. 40. [171] Wilmot’s account of the claimants and of the money awarded is most confusing. The figures are taken from the last Appendix, No. IX, which says the ‘claims including those in Nova Scotia and Canada’ were 5,072. It is difficult to reconcile these figures with those given on pp. 90-1 of the book, unless in the latter case the claims made in Canada are omitted. [172] See the _Annual Register_ for 1783, p. 262.