PIONEER HUNTERS OE THE KANKAKEE 

 was the only white man within the country 

 limits. His family consisted of a wife and four 

 daughters. As the years passed by he became 

 very wealthy, so much so that he purchased a 

 sloop and was thus enabled to take his children 

 east to give them the advantage of a thorough 

 education and culture. Eleanor, the oldest, took 

 the veil and was for many years Mother Super- 

 ior of St. Mary's School at Terre Haute, Indiana. 

 There have been many treaties made with the 

 Pottowattomies. one made in 1832 and one in 

 1836. By the former treaties the Pottowatto- 

 mies conceded to the United States all the 

 country situated between the mouth of the Tip- 

 pecanoe River, running up the river twenty-five 

 miles, thence to the Wabash river, thence across 

 to the Vermillion river. This was known as the 

 St. Mary's Treaty. By this treaty the Kankakee 

 region formed a part of the domain of the Pot- 

 towattomie Indians, although they were of the 

 Miami's Confederacy and the Miamis claimed 

 the land by right of occupancy. The Pottowat- 



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