PlONEiiR HUNTERS OF 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 Aother Super- 

 ior of St. /Aary'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 [^iver, running up the river twenty-five 

 miles, thence to the Wabash river, thence across 

 to the Vermillion river. This was known as the 

 St. /Gary's Treaty. By this treaty the Kankakee 

 region formed a part of the domain of the Pot- 

 towattomie Indians, although they were of the 

 /Aiami's Confederacy and the .^Aiamis claim.ed 

 the land by right of occupancy. The Pottov/at- 



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