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INDIAN LAND CESSrIOXS IN THE UNITED STATES 



[ETH. ANN. 18 



SCHEDULE OF I^DI^I^^ 



Where or hoio I „ -. 

 concluded Werence 



Description of cession or rexereatioii 



180S 

 Nov. 14 



Washington. 

 D. C. 



Stat. L., Creek 

 VII, 96. 



Mount Dexter 

 in PoosUa- 

 pukanukjiu 

 the Choc- 

 taw coun- 

 try. 



Stat. L., I Choctaw . 

 VII, 98. I 



30 Vincennes, In- 

 diana terri- ' 

 tory. 



1806 

 Jan. 't 



Stat. L., I Fiankishaw . 

 VII, 100. 1 



Washington, 

 D.C. 



Stat. L., Cherokee. 

 VII, 101. 



From the forei;oing cession the Creek reserve a tract :> miles in 

 length and M in lireudrh. and hounded as follows: Beginning 

 on tlie eastern shore of iiciuulgee river, at a point 3 miles on 

 a straight line aliove the moutli of a creek called Oakchon- 

 coolgau, wbich empties into the Ocmnlgee near the lower 

 part of what is called the Old Ocmnlgee fields; thence run- 

 ning 3 miles eastwardly, on a course at right angles with 

 the general course of the river for 5 miles below the point 

 of beginning: thence from the end of The 3 miles to run 5 

 miles parallel with the said course of tbe river: thence west- 

 w^ardly at right angles with the last-mentioned line to the 

 river, and by the river to the beginning. 



Upon this tract the U. S. reserve the right to erect a military 

 iir trading post. 



Tbe Creek further agree that the U. S. shall have a right to 

 a horse path through the Creek country, from the Ocmulgee 

 to the Mobile, in such direction as the President shall con- 

 sider most convenient. 



Tbe Chaktaw nation cede to the U. .S. all lands claimed by them 

 lying to the right of the following lines, viz: Beginning at 

 a branch of the Hnmacheeto. where the same is intersected 

 by the present Chaktaw boundary and also by the path 

 leading from Natchez to the county of Washington, usually 

 called McClarey's path : thence eastwardly along ilcClarey's 

 path to the E. or left bank of Pearl river; thence on such a 

 direct line as would touch the lower end of a blutf on the 

 left bank of Chickasawhay river, the first above the Hiyoo- 

 wannee towns, called Broken Bluff, to a point within 4 miles 

 of tbe Broken Bluff'; thence in a direct line, nearly parallel 

 with the river, to a point whence an E. line of 4 miles in 

 length will intersect the river below the lowest settlement 

 occupied and improved in the Hiyoowaunee town; thence 

 still E. 4 miles; thence in a direct line, nearly parallel with 

 tbe river, to a point on a line to be run from the lower end of 

 the Broken Bluff' to Faluktabunnee, on the Tombigbee river, 

 4 miles from tbe Broken Bluff'; thence along the said line to 

 Faluktabunnee; thence E. to the boundary between the 

 Creek and Cbaktaws, on the ridge dividing the waters run- 

 ning into the .\labama from those running into Tombigbee; 

 thence southwardly along the said ridge and boundary to 

 the southern point of tbe Chaktaw claim. 



The Chaktaw reserve from the foregoing cession a tract of 2 

 miles square, run on meridians and parallels so as to include 

 tbe houses and improvements in the town of Fuketchee- 

 poonta. 



The Cbaktaws also reserve a tract of 5,120 acres, beginning at 

 a post on the left bank of Tombigbee river, opposite the 

 lower end of Hatchatigbee Bluff'; thence .ascending the river 

 4 miles front and 2 back; one-half for tbe use of Alzira and 

 the other half for tlie use of Sophia, daughters of Samuel 

 Mitchell, by Molly, a Chaktaw woman. 



The Piankishaw tribe cedes to the V. S. all that tract of coun- 

 try (except as hereinbelow reserved) lying between the Wa- 

 bash and tbe tract ceded by tbe Kaskaskia tribe in 1803 and 

 S. of a line to be drawn from tbe NW. corner of the Vin- 

 cennes tract N. 78- W. until it intersects the boundary line 

 heretofore separating the lands of the Piankishaws from the 

 said tract reded by the Kaskaskias. 



The Piankishaws reserve from tbe foregoing cession the right 

 to locate a tract of 2 square miles, or 1,280 acres, the fee of 

 wbich shall remain with them forever. 



The Cherokees ceile to the U. S. all claim to all that tract of 

 country lying to tbe northward of the river Tennessee and 

 westward of a line to be run from tbe upper part of the 

 Chickasaw Old Fields, at the ui)]ier point of an island called 

 Chickasaw island, on said river, to the most easterly head 

 waters of that branch of Tennessee river called Duck river. 



