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A TREATY,

HELD AT THE CITY OF NEW YORK,

WITH THE

NATIONS,

OR

TRIBES OF INDIANS,

DENOMINATING THEMSELVES THE

Seven Nations of Canada.

Ata Treaty held at the City of New-York, with the Nations or Tribes of Indians, denominating themfelves the Seven Nations of Canada; Abraham Ogden, Commiffioner, appointed under the Authority of the United States, to hold the Treaty; Ohnaweio, alias Goodstream, Teharagwanegen, alias Thomas Williams, two Chiefs of the Caghnawagas; Atiatoharongwan, alias Colonel Lewis Cook, a Chief of the St. Regis Indians, and William Gray, Deputies, authorized to represent the Seven Nations or Tribes of Indians at the Treaty, and Mr. Gray, ferving alfo as Interpreter ; Egbert Benfon, Richard Varick and James Watson, Agents for the State of New-York; William Conftable and Daniel McCormick, Purchafers under Alexander Macomb :

THE

HE agents for the ftate, having, in the prefence, and with the approbation of the commifiioner, propofed to the deputies for the Indians, the compenfation herein-after mentioned, for the extinguishment of their

Ceffion of Inds to New York

State of

claim to all lands within the ftate, and the said deputies being willing to accept the fame, it is thereupon granted, agreed and concluded between the faid deputies and the faid agents, as follows: The faid deputies do, for and in the name of the faid Seven Nations or tribes of In- . dians, cede, release and quit claim to the people of the ftate of New-York, forever, all the claim, right, or title of them, the faid Seven Nations or tribes of Indians, to lands within the faid flate: Provided nevertheless, That the tract equal to fix miles fquare, referved in the fale made by the commiflioners of the land-office of the faid ftate, to Alexander Macomb, to be applied to the ufe of the Indians of the village of St. Regis, fhall ftill remain fo referved. The faid agents do, for, and in the name of the people of the state of New-York, grant to the faid Seven Nations or tribes of Indians, that the people of the ftate of New-York fhall pay to them, at the mouth of the river Chazy, on Lake Champlain, on the third Monday in Auguft next, the fum of one thousand two huntherefor. dred and thirty-three pounds, fix fhillings and eight-pence, and the further fum of two hundred and thirteen pounds fix fhillings and cight-pence, lawful money of the faid ftate, and on the third Monday in August, yearly, forever thereafter, the like fum of two hundred and thirteen pounds fix fhillings and eight-pence Provided nevertheless, That the people of the ftate of New-York fhall not be held to pay the faid fums, unlefs in refpect to the two fums to be paid on the third Monday in Auguft next, at least twenty, and in refpect to the faid yearly fum to be paid thereafter, at least five of the principal men of the faid Seven Nations or tribes of Indians, fhall

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attend as deputies to receive and give receipts. for the fame: The said deputies having fuggef ted, that the Indians of the village of St. Regis have built a mill on Salmon river, and another on Grass river, and that the meadows on Grafs river are neceffary to them for hay; in order, therefore, to fecure to the Indians of the faid village, the use of the faid mills and meadows, in case they should hereafter appear not to be included within the above tract so to remain referved; it is, therefore, alfo agreed and concluded between the faid deputies, the faid agents, and the faid William Conftable and Indian reDaniel M'Cormick, for themselves and their affociates, puchafers under the faid Alexander Macomb, of the adjacent lands, that there shall be reserved, to be applied to the ufe of the Indians of the faid village of St. Regis, in like manner as the faid tract is to remain referved, a tract of one mile fquare, at each of the faid mills, and the meadows on both fides of the faid Grafs river from the faid mill thereon, to its confluence with the river St. Law

rence.

IN TESTIMONY whereof, the faid commiffioner, the faid deputies, the faid agents, and the faid William Conftable and Daniel M'Cormick, have hereunto, and to two other acts of the fame tenor and date, one to remain with the United States, another to remain with the state of New-York, and another to remain with the Jaid Seven Nations or tribes of Indians, fet their hands and feals, in the city of New-York, the thirty-first day of May, in the twentieth year of the independence of the United States, one thousand feven hundred and ninety-fix. Abraham Ogden,

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Lewis Cook.)

William Gray,

Ohaweio, his mark (alias Goodstream)(L. s.)

Otiatokarongwan, his mark (alias Colonel

Teharagwanegen, (alias Thomas Williams)

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Signed, Sealed and delivered in the prefence of Samuel Jones, Recorder of the city of New-York.

John Tayler, Recorder of the city of
Albany.

Jofeph Ogden Hoffman, attorney-ge-
neral of the ftate of New-York.

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JOHN ADAMS,

Prefident of the United States of America.

To all to whom these prefents fhall come; Greeting:

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HEREAS, a Treaty of Peace and Friendship was made and concluded on, at Coleraine, in the state of Georgia, the twenty-ninth day of June, one thousand feven hundred and ninety-fix, between the Pesident of the United States of America, on the one part, and behalf of the faid ftates, and the Kings, Chiefs and Warriors of the Creek Nation of Indians, on the part of the faid Nation; which Treaty is in the words following, to wit:

A TREATY of PEACE and FRIENDSHIP made and concluded between the President of the United States of America, on the one Part, and Behalf of the faid States, and the underfigned Kings, Chiefs and Warriors of the Creek Nation of Indians, on the Part of the faid Nation.

THE parties being defirous of establishing permanent peace and friendship

THE

between the United States and the faid Creek nation, and the citizens and members thereof; and to remove the causes of war, by afcertaining their limits, and making other neceffary, juft and friendly arrangements; the Prefident of the United States, by Benjamin Hawkins, George Clymer and Andrew Pick

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