Deed from the Five Nations to the King, of their Beaver Hunting Ground, more commonly known as the Nanfan Treaty, was an agreement made between the representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy with John Nanfan

John Nanfan

John Nanfan was a lieutenant governor of the Province of New York from 1698 to 1702. He served as acting governor for about a year between the death of the Earl of Bellomont and the arrival of Bellomont's successor, Lord Cornbury...

, the acting colonial governor of New York, on behalf of the The Crown

The Crown

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. The treaty was conducted in Albany, New York

Albany, New York

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, on July 19, 1701, but was not ratified until September 14, 1726. The Iroquois granted the British crown title to a vast area of land, covering significant portions of the present-day Midwestern United States

Midwestern United States

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 and southern Ontario

Ontario

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 that they claimed as a hunting ground.

As the vast majority of the Beaver Hunting Grounds described in the Nanfan Treaty were also claimed by New France

New France

New France was the area colonized by France in North America during a period beginning with the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Spain and Great Britain in 1763...

or its Indian allies, the French did not recognize the treaty.