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INDIAN LAND CESSIONS IN THE UNITED STATES 



SCHEDULE OF i:>^DIa\.>r 



irherr or liow « /- 



■ , , lieference 



concluded •' 



Description of cfssioii or )■< 



1786 

 Jan. 3 



Hopewell on 

 K o o w e e 

 rivei'jSoutli 

 C'ai'oiiua. 



Stat. L., 

 VII, 21. 



Hopewell on 

 K e o w e e 

 river, South 

 Carolina. 



Stat. L., I Chickasaw . 

 VII, 24. 



1788 

 Sept. 3 



1789 



Jan. 9 



Mouth of 

 Great Mia- 

 mi river. 



Stat. L., 

 VII, 26. 



Ordinance Christian I:: 

 of Con- dians. 



gress. 



Fort Hurmar, 

 Ohio. 



Fort Harmar, 

 Ohio. 



Stat. L., 

 VII, 28. 



Stat. L., 

 VII, 33. 



Wyandot, Del- 

 aware, Ot- 

 tawa, Chip- 

 pewa, Pot- 

 aw a 1 m i , 

 and Sauk. 



Six Nations . 



Article 3 provides that "The boundary of the lands hereby 

 allotted to the Choitaw nation to live and hunt on within 

 the limits of the United States of America is and shall be 

 the following, viz: Beginning at a point ou the thirty-first 

 degree of N. latitude, where the eastern boundary of the 

 Natches district shall touch the same; thence E. aloug the 

 said tliirty-tirst degree of N. latitude, being the southern 

 boundary of the United States of America, until it shall 

 strike the eastern boundary of the lauds on which the 

 Indians of the said nation did live and hunt on the 2yth of 

 Nov., 17?<2, while they were under the protection of the King 

 of Great Britain; thence northerly alnng the said eastern 

 boundary, until it shall meet the northern boundary of the 

 said lands; thence westerly aloug the said northern bound- 

 ary, until it shall meet the western boundary thereof; 

 thence southerly along the same to the beginning.'' 



By the same article there is reserved for the use of the U. S., 

 for the establishment of trading posts, three tracts of 6 

 miles square each within the geneial limits of the above- 

 described boundaries at such places as Congress may iles- 

 ignate. 



Article 3 defines the boundaries of the Chickasaw as follows : 

 Beginning ou the ridge that divides the waters running into 

 the Cumberland, from those running into the Tennessee, at a 

 jjoiut in a line to be ruu NE., which shall strike the Ten- 

 nessee at the mouth of Duck river; thence westerly along 

 said ridge, till it shall strike the Ohio; thence down the S. 

 bank thereof to the Mississippi; thence down the same to 

 the Choctaw line or Natchez district; thence along said 

 line, or the line of the district eastwanlly as far as the Chick- 

 asaws claimed and lived and hunted on, the 29th of Nov., 

 1782. Thence the said boundary eastwardly shall be the 

 lands allotted to the Choctaws and Cherokees and the lands 

 at jiresent in the possessiou of the Creeks. 



From the foregoing territory there was reserved by the U. S. 

 for the establishment of a trading post a circular tract 5 

 miles in diameter to be laid out at the lower port of the 

 Muscle shoals at the mouth of Ocochappo river. 



The U. S. allot to the Shawanoe nation the following country, 

 to live and hunt upon: Beginning at the S. line of the lands 

 allotted to the Wyandots and Delaware nations, at the place 

 where the main branch of the Great Miami which falls into 

 the Ohio intersects said line; thence down the river Miami 

 to the fork next below the old fort which was taken by the 

 French in 1752; thence due W. to the river de l.a I'ause and 

 down that river to the Wabash. The Shawanees relinquish 

 to the U. S. all claim to lands E., W., and S. of the E., \V., 

 and S. lines before described. 



Congress set apart a tract of 4,000 acres at Shoenbrun on 

 Muskingum river for Christian Indians. 



Congress set apart a tract of 4,000 acres at Gnadenhutten on 

 Muskingum river for Christian Indians. 



Congress set apart a tract of 4,000 acres at Salem on Muskin- 

 gum river for Christian Indians. 



Reaffirm boundaries and reserves under treaty of Jan. 21, 1783, 

 and cede all other claims. 



The Sis Nations renew and confirm the provisions as to bound- 

 aries established bv treatv of Oct. 22, 1784. 



