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INDIAN LAND CESSIONS IN THE UNITED STATES 



[ETH. ANN. 18 



SCHEDULE OF INDI^?^ 



1805 



July i 



'ellico Gar- 

 rison, on 

 Cherokee 

 ground. 



St Louis, in 

 the District 

 of Louis- 

 iana. 



Stat. L., 

 VII, 22.S. 



Stat. L., 

 VII, 84. 



Fort Indus- 

 try, on the 

 Miami of 

 the Lake. 



Description vf ccHSh 



Wyandot, Ot- 

 tawa, Chip- 

 pewa, Mun- 

 see, Sel- 

 aware, 

 Shawnee, 

 and Fota- 

 watomi. 



The Piankesbaws cede to the II. S. the country lying between 

 the Ohio and Wabash rivers and below Clark's grant, and 

 the tract called the Vincennes tract, ceded by the treaty of 

 Fort Wayne, and a line connecting the said tnict and grant, 

 to be drawn parallel to tlie general course of the road lead- 

 ing from Vincennes to the i'alls of tlie Ohio, so as not to 

 pass more than half a mile to the northward of the nicst 

 northerly liend of said road. 



The Piankeshaws acknowledge the right of the Kaskaskias to 

 sell the cduntiy ceded by the latter to the I!. S. by treaty of 

 Aug. 13, 1803, and which is sepSratcd from the lands of the 

 Piaukcshaws by the ridge or high land which divides the 

 waters of the Waliash from the waters of tlie t^aline creek, 

 and by that -whicli divides the waters of the "Wabash from 

 those which (low into the Au-Vase and other branches of 

 the Mississippi. 



The Cherokees cede to the U. S. a tract bordering southerly on 

 tlie bonudaiy lino between the State of (ieorgia and the 

 Cherokee nation, beginning at a point on said boundary line 

 northeasterly of the most NE. ]ilantation in the settlement 

 known by the name of Watibrd's settlement, and running at 

 right angles with tlie said boundary line 4 miles into tlie 

 Cherokee land; thence at right angles southwesterly and 

 parallel to the tir.st-mentioned boundary line so far as that 

 a line to be run at right angles southerly to the s;iid first- 

 mentioned boundary line shall include in this cession all the 

 plantations in Waftord's settlement. 



Article 2 provides that the general l>oundary between the U. S. 

 and the Sacs and Foxes sliall be as follows: Begiiiniug at a 

 point on the Jlissouri river opposite to the mouth of Gascon- 

 ade river; thence in a direct course so as to strike the river 

 .Teffreon at the distance of 30 miles from its mouth, and 

 down the said .lettreon to the Mississippi; thence up the 

 Mississippi to the mouth of the Ouisconsing river, and up 

 the same to a point which shall be 36 miles in a direct line 

 from the mouth of said river; thence by a direct line to the 

 point where the Fox river (a brunch of the Illinois) leaves 

 the small lake called Sakaegan; thence down the Fox river 

 to the Illinois river, and down the same to the Mississippi. 

 And the said trilies reliuijuish to the U. S. all claim to lands 

 within said boundaries. 



By article 11 the Sacs and Foxes cede to the U. S. a tract of 

 land 2 miles sijuare for the establishment of a military reser- 

 vation either on the upper side of the Ouisconsing or on tlio 

 right bank of the Mississippi. 



Article 2 defines the boundary between the U. S. and these 

 Iniliaiis as being a meridian line drawn N. and 8. through a 

 boundary to be erected on tlie S. shore of Lake Erie 120 

 miles due \V. of the W. boundary line of the Stale of Penn- 

 sylvania, extending N. until it intersects tlie boundary line 

 of the U. S., and extending S. it intersects a line previously 

 established by the treaty of Greeuvillo (ITilo). The Indian's 

 cede to the U. S. all lands lying E. of the aforesaid line, 

 bounded southerly and easterly by the line established by 

 the treaty of Greenville, and northerly by the northern- 

 most part of 41^ of N. latitude. 



The foregoing cession iiividves three separate tracts, the first 

 two of which, however, may be considered, for the puiposes 

 of this work, as one. These tracts are as follows: 



1. The tract claimed l>y the Connecticut Land Comjiany. 



2. The tract claimed by " the proprietors of the half mil- 



lion acres of land lying S. of Lake Erie called SuH'er- 

 ers' Land." 



