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TREATY WITH THE MIAMIES. 1818. 139 In testimony whereof the said Jonathan Jennings, Lewis Cass, and Benjamin Parke, commissioners as aforesaid, and the chiefs and warriors of the Delaware nation of Indians, have hereunto set their hands, at St. Marys in the state of Ohio, this third day of October,] in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eng teen. JONATHAN JENNINGS, LEW. CASS, B. PARKE. Kithteeleland, or Anderson, The Cat, Lahpanihle, or Big Bear, Ben Beaver, James N anticoke, The War Mallet, Apacahund, or \Vhite Eyes, Captain Caghkoo, Captain Killbuck, The Buck, The Beaver, Petchenanalas, Netahopnna, John Quake, Capfain Tunis, Qnenaghtoothmait, Captain Ketchum, Little Jack. In presence of James Dill, Secretary to the Commissioners. William Turner, Secretary. Jno. Johnston, Indian Agent. B. F. Stickney, S. I. A. John Conner. Williani Conner, Interpreter. John Kinzie, Sub Agent. G. Godfrey, Sub Agent. John F. Chunn, Maj. 3d U. S. Infantry. J. Hackley, Capt. 3d Infantry. Will. Oliver. Hillary Brunot, Lt. 3d Infantry. David Oliver, Sergt. for the Csunesheding. R. A. Forsyth, Jr. Secretary Ind. Depart. To the Indian names are subjoined a mark and seal.

ARTICLES OF A TREATY Made and concluded, at St. Mary’s, in the state of Ohio, between Oct. 6, 1818. Jonathan Jennings, Lewis Cass, and Benjamin Parke, Com- missioners of the United States, and the Miame nation of In- J¤· 15»1$19- diuns. Am`. I. The Miami nation of Indians cede to the United States the Cession of following tract of country: Beginning at the YVabash river, where the 'h° present Indian boundary line crosses the same, near the mouth of Rao- S' coon creek; thence, up the Wabash river, to the reserve at its head, near Fort Wayne; thence, to the reserve at Fort Wayne; thence, with the lines thereof, to the St. Mary’s river; thence, up the St. Mary’s river, to the reservation at the portage; thence, with the line of the cession made by the Wyandot nation of Indians to the United States, at Ams,p.150. the foot of the Rapids of the Miami of Lake Erie, on the 29th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, to the reservation at Loramie’s store; thence, with the present Indian boundary line, to Fort Recovery; and, with the said line, following the courses thereof, to the place of beginning. ART. 2. From the cession aforesaid the following reservations, for the Reservations use of the Miami nation of Indians, shall be made; one reservation, ti;‘;’;‘h2"‘:1;;S;;5’“ extending along the iVabash river, from the month of Salamanie river the Miami6s_ to the mouth of Eel river, and from those points, running due south, a distance equal to a direct line from the mouth of Salamanie river to the mouth of Eel river. One other reservation, of two miles square, on the river Salamanie, at the mouth of Atchepongqwawe creek. One other reservation, of six miles square, on the Wabash river, below the forks