Long, Joseph L. Tennery, Robert Robertaile, Jared S. Dawson, Joseph Newell, John T. Walker, Peter D. Clark, James Rankin, Samuel McCulloch, Elliot McCulloch, Isaiah Walker, William M. Tennery, Henry Clay Walker, Ebenezer Z. Reed, and Joel Walker Garrett, and to the following chiefs and councillors one section each, Francis A. Hicks, James Washington, Squeendehtee, Henry Jaques, Tauroonee, Doctor Grey Eyes, George Armstrong Warpole, John Hicks, Peacock, and George Punch. The lands hereby granted to be selected by the grantees, surveyed and patented at the expense of the United States, but never to be conveyed by them or their heirs without the permission of the President of the United States. Payments to ARTICLE 15. The United States agree to pay to William Walker and Joel Walker each the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, and to John M. Arm- be made by strong one hundred and fifty dollars, for services rendered as interpreters in United States to certain persons. the progress of the negotiation; and to Warpole, a former chief of the Wyandott nation, one hundred and fifty dollars, money expended by him as one of the party who accompanied Joseph McCutchen, a former Commissioner of the United States to the city of Washington in September, 1839. C. Walker, ARTICLE 16. In the year 1812, the houses, barns, stables, fences, horses, cattle, and hogs, with farming utensils and household furniture to a large widow of W. amount, the property of the late William Walker, of Brownstown in the Terri- Walker, to be tory of Michigan, was destroyed by the enemy, while in the occupancy of the paid $3,000 for United States forces; and by reason of his attachment to the cause of his coun- stroyed. property detry, being a native citizen taken prisoner in early life by the Wyandott Indians, intermarried and ever after living among them, the evidence of all which is ample and conclusive. There is, therefore, granted unto Catherine Walker, widow of the said William Walker, and to his heirs, the sum of three thousand dollars, in full satisfaction of their claim, to be paid by the United States to her or them, after the ratification of this treaty. ARTICLE 17. There shall be reserved from sale and for ever devoted to public use, two acres of ground as near as can be in a square form, to include the stone meeting house and burying ground near to and north of Upper Sandusky, one acre to include the burying ground on the bank near the council house at Upper Sandusky, and one half acre to include the burying ground on the farm of Silas Armstrong, which several lots of ground shall for ever remain open and free to all persons for the purpose of interment, and houses of worship, and for no other purposes whatever. Lots to be reserved for interment and houses of worship. ARTICLE 18. This treaty shall take effect and be obligatory on the contractTreaty to take ing parties, as soon as the same shall be ratified by the President of the United effect when ratiStates, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof. fied. In testimony whereof, the said John Johnston, commissioner as aforesaid, and Signed March the chiefs, and councillors, and headmen, of the Wyandott nation, in open 17th, 1842. council at the council house, at Upper Sandusky, in the County of Crawford, and the State of Ohio, on the seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, have set their names. JOHN JOHNSTON. [SEAL.] Fran. A. Hicks, Principal Chief. James Washington, Squeendehtee, Henry Jaquis, To all the names excepting Johnston's and Hicks are subjoined marks. Signed in presence of us: John W. Bear, Sub Indian Agent, James Rankin, United States Interpreter, G. C. Worth, John Carey, Samuel Newell, Stephen Fowler, Chas. Graham, John Walker, Andrew Gardner, Jr., IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, August 17, 1842. Resolved, Two thirds of the Senators present concurring therein, that the Resolution of Senate advise and consent to the ratification of the treaty between the United the Senate adStates of America and the Wyandott Nation of Indians, concluded at Upper vising and con VOL. VII. - 77 senting to the ratification of the treaty with certain amend ments. Assent of the Wyandotts to Sandusky, Crawford County, Ohio, on the 17th March, 1842, with the follow ing amendments: ARTICLE 2. Lines 4 and 5, strike out the words, "in a square or oblong form, as the chiefs of said nation may prefer." ARTICLE 2. From the word nation, in line 10, strike out to the end of that article the following words: "and the United States having reserved three sections of land, of six hundred and forty acres each, within the Shawanoese territory, immediately below the junction of the Kanza river with the Missouri, for the purpose of erecting a fort thereon; and it being no longer necessary to be retained for that use, they are hereby ceded to the said Wyandott nation, both of these cessions to be made in fee simple to the Wyandotts and to their heirs for ever." ARTICLE 6. Insert in the blank line 4, the following words: twenty-three thousand eight hundred and sixty. ARTICLE 14. Line 6, strike out "Mississippi" and insert Missouri. Attest: Secretary. WE, the undersigned chiefs and councillors of the Wyandott Nation of Indians residing in the State of Ohio, and representing also the Wyandotts of the the amendments river Huron in Michigan, do hereby give our free and voluntary assent to the made by the Senate. Treaty ratified October 5th, 1842. foregoing amendments made by the Senate of the United States, on the 17th day of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, to the treaty concluded by us with the United States, on the 17th day of March, 1842, the same having been submitted and fully explained to us by John Johnston, Commissioner on the part of the United States, for that purpose, in full council assembled. In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals, respectively at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, the sixteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, 1842. Now, therefore, be it known, that I, JOHN TYLER, President of the United States of America, do, in pursuance of the advice and consent of the Senate, as expressed in their resolution of the seventeenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, accept, ratify, and confirm the said treaty, with the amendments set forth in the said resolution. In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed, having signed the same with my hand. Done at the City of Washington, the fifth day of October, in the year [L. S.] of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and of the Independence of the United States the sixty-seventh. By the President: FLETCHER WEBSTER, JOHN TYLER. Acting Secretary of State. Treaty with the Cherokees. November 28, 42 43 62 Treaty with the Cherokees. July 2, 1791, 39 93 95 Treaty with the Wyandots, Delawares, Chip- 28 Treaty with the Wyandots, Delawares, Shaw- cas, 3A2 (611) Chippewas. wares, Shawnees, Pottawatimies, Ottawas 303 536 289 565 Supplementary articles to certain treatics 578 366 Treaty with the Chippewas. October 4, 1842, 574 591 Choctaws. Provisional Convention with the Choctaws. 16 Treaty with the Delawares. September 17, 28 13 Treaty with the Delawares, Shawnees, Pot- INDEX. 613 Delawares. Treaty with the Delawares, Pottawatimics, 91 Treaty with the Delawares, Pottawatimies, Treaty with the Wyandots, Delawares, Shaw- 131 Kaskaskias. - 511 547 October 28, 1815, 270 49 Treaty with the Wyandots, Delawares, Shaw- Treaty with the Kaskaskias. August 13, 1803, Ka-ta-kas. 181 403 Treaty with the Kiowas, Ka-ta-kas, and Ta- Kickapoos. Treaty with the Wyandots, Delawares, Shaw- Treaty with the Delawares, Shawnees, Potta- 77 Treaty with the Kickapoos. September 2, 130 June 145 Treaty with the Weas and Kickapoos. 200 Treaty with the Kickapoos. July 19, 1820, Convention with the Kickapoos. September Treaty with the Kickapoos. October 24, 1832, 391 |