boyck! cessions op 1802-1S03 



L^i^D CESSIOJSrS-Continned. 



663 



IlUUiririil dulii .(»'/ rniuii-la 



DesUjiiation of cession on map 



The IIi>llanil Land Company was the assignee of Robert Morris so far as those 

 lands were concerned. The Senekawere dissatisfied with the extent of tlie 

 Cattaraugus reserves as created by contract with Eol)ert Morris, Sept. ir>, 

 1797. The Holland Land Couipauy, therefore, in order to appease them 

 accepted a cession of botli those reserves, and then in tnru granted them a 

 traet (which constitutes the present Cattaraugus reserve) which included 

 almost tlie whole of the 12-mile reserve along Cattaraugus creek, as well as 

 considerable additional territory on both the N. aud S. sides of the original 

 reserve. 



(See 36 and 



37) ; 



This tract was originally reserved to tho Seneka by the terms 

 of Sept. 15, 1797, between them and Robert Morris. 



:)f the eoutra(^t 



This was simply a contirmatiou of a cession made to Great Britain by the 

 Choctaw lieforo the independence of the U. S. The boundary lines of the 

 old treaty of March 28, 1765, are but partially given. [See Introduction, 

 pp.5.-.9-.-..;0.] 



Alabama, Mississippi. 



Indiana, Illinois 1. 



IS KTII, VT '2- 



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