290 TREATY WITH THE KICKAPOOS. 1819. The above instrument was executed in open Cherokee council, in my office, in January, 1817. (Signed) RETURN J. MEIGS. Cherokee Agency, Sth July, 1817. The use of the Unicoy road, so called, was for twenty years. (Signed) RETURN J. MEIGS. 1 certify I believe the within to be a correct copy of the original. Ch. HICKS. Washington City, March 1, 1819. A T R E A T Y Jalyao, 1819. Made and concluded at Edwardsville, in the State of Illinois,
between Auguste Chouteau, and Benjamin Stephenson, Com-
Jan. 13, 1821. missioners on the part and behalf of the United States q" America, of the one part, and the undersigned principal Chiqs and Wan·ior·s of the Kickapoo Tribe of Indians, on the part and behalf of said Tribe, of the other part. Tbctribc wd, Am-. 1. The undersigned Chiefs and Warriors, for themselves and tracts of land. their said tribe, for, and in consideration of, the promises and stipulations hereinafter made, do hereby cede and relinquish to the United States for ever, all their right, interest, and title, oi, in, and to, the following tracts of land, viz : Land ceded- All their land on the southeast side of the Wabash river, including the principal village in which their ancestors formerly resided, consisting of a large tract, to which they have had, from time immemorial, and now have, a just right; that they have never heretofore ceded, or otherwise disposed ot; in any manner whatever. Boundaries of Also, all the land within the following boundaries, viz: Beginning on ‘;2é;:,l“"d the Wabash river, at the upper point of their cession, made by the ° second article of their treaty at Vincennes, on the 9th December, 1809; running thence, northwestwardly, to the dividing line between the states of Illinois and Indiana; thence, along said line, to the Kankakee river; thence, with said river, to the Illinois river; thence, down the latter, to its mouth; thence, with a direct line, to the northwest corner of the Vincennes tract, as recognised in the treaty with the Piankeshaw tribe of Indians at Vincennes, on the 30th December, 1805; and thence, with the western and northern boundaries of the cessions heretofore made by the said Kickapoo tribe of Indians, to the beginning. Of which last described tract of land, the said Kickapoo tribe claim a large portion, by descent from their ancestors, and the balance by conquest from the Illinois nation, and uninterrupted possession for more than half a century. Connrmatiqn Ama 2. The said tribe hereby confirm all their former treaties with gf f°2¤·=f ¤¤¤· the United States, and relinquish to them all claim to every portion of °°’ °‘ their lands which may have been ceded by any other tribe or tribes, and all and every demand which they might have had, in consequence of the AIM, P- U5- second article of the treaty made with the Pottawattamy nation of Indians at St. Mary’s, on the 2d October, 1818.
