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378 TREATY WITH THE POTTAWATIMIES. 1832. John Blunt, O San-Hajo, or Davy, Co-ha·thlock-co, or Cockrane. W1TNIS5ES—-Wm. P. Duval, Supt. Stephen Richards, Interpreler. Robt. W. \Villia.ms. R. Lewis Tho. Brown. James D. Westcott, Jr. To the Indian names are suhioinsd marks.

ARTICLES OF A TREATY, Oct. 20, waz. Made and concluded at Camp Tippecanoe, in the State of In-

 diana, this twentieth day of October, in the year of our Lord

J¤¤.·21, was., one thousand eight hundre and thirty-two, between Jonathan Jennings, John W Davis and Marlcs Crume, Commissioners on the art of the United States of the one part, and the Chiefsand Jiiaadmen of the Potawatamie Tribe of Indians of the Prairie and Kankakee, of the other part. gcssgon mth., Art·1*1cr.e I. The said Potawatamie Tribe of Indians cede to the United SIMS- United States the tract of land included within the following boundary, viz: Beginning at a point on Lake Michigan ten miles southward of the mouth of Chicago river; thence, in a direct line, to a point on the Kaukakee river, ten miles above its mouth; thence, with said river and the Illinois river, to the mouth of Fox river, being the boundary of a cession made by them in 1816; thence, with the southern boundary of the Indian Territory, to the State line between Illinois and Indiana; thence, north with said line, to Lake Michigan; thence, with the shore of Lake Michigan, to the place of beginning. Rew,,,,,,O,,S_ Arvrrcnn II. From the cession aforesaid the following tracts shall be reserved, to wit: Five sections for Shaw-waw-nas-see, to include Little Rock village. For Min-e-maung, one section, to include his village. For Joseph Laughton, son of Wais-ke-shaw, one section, and for Ce-na-ge·wine, one section, both to be located at Twelve Mile Grove, or Na-be-na·qui-nong. For Claude Laframboise, one section, on Thorn creek. For Maw-te-no, daughter of Francois Burbonnois, jun. one section, at Soldier’s village. _lI’or Catish, wife of Francis Burbonnois, sen. one section, at Soldiers vi age. For the children of Wais-ke-shasv, two sections, to include the small grove of timber on the river above Rock village. For Jean B. Chevallier, one section, near Rock village; and for his two sisters, Angelique and Josette, one half section each, joining his. For Me-she-ke-ten-0, two sections, to include his village. For Francis Le Via, one section, joining Me·she-ke-ten-0. For the five daughters of Mo-nee, by her last husband, Joseph Bailey, two sections. _]I•`0r Me-saw-ke-qua and her children, two sections, at Wais·us-kucks’s vi age. For Sho-bon-ier, two sections, at his village. For Josette Beaubien and her children, two sections, to be located on Hickory creek. For Therese, wife of Joseph Laframboise, one section; and for Archange Pettier, one section, both at Skunk Grove.