TREATY WITH THE SIX NATIONS. 1784.

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afforded to any who are at present our enemies, by which they mightescape the punishment they deserve.

In witness whereof, the Parties have hereunto interchangeably setttheir Hands and Seals at Fort-Pitt, September seventeenth, AnnoDomini one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight.

Andrew Lewis, The Pipe,

Thomas Lewis, John Kill Buck.

White Eyes,

IN PRESENCE OP

Lachn. M'Intosh, B. General, commander the western department. Daniel Brod-head, Col. 8th Pennsylvania regiment. W. Crawford, Col. John Campbell. JohnStephenson. Jno. Gibson, Col. 13th Virginia regiment. A. Graham, BrigadeMajor. Lachn. M’Intosh, jun. Major Brigade . Benjamin Mills. Joseph L. Pin-ley, Capt. 8th Pennsylvania regiment. John Finley, Capt. 8th Pennsylvania regi-ment.

To the Indian names are subjoined a mark and seal.

ARTICLES

Concluded, at Fort Stanwix, on the twenty-second day of October,one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, between OliverWolcott , Richard Butler, and Arthur Lee, Commissioners Ple-nipotentiary from the United States , in Congress assembled, onthe one Part, and the Sachems and Warriors of the Six Nations ,on the other.

The United States of America give peace to the Senecas, Mohawks ,Onondagas and Cayugas, and receive them into their protection uponthe following conditions:

ARTICLE I.

Six hostages shall be immediately delivered to the commissioners bythe said nations, to remain in possession of the United States , till allthe prisoners, white and black, which were taken by the said Senecas,Mohawks , Onondagas and Cayugas, or by any of them, in the latewar, from among the people of the United States , shall be delivered up.

ARTICLE II.

The Oneida and Tuscarora nations shall be secured in the possessionof the lands on which they are settled.

ARTICLE III.

A line shall be drawn, beginning at the mouth of a creek about fourmiles east of Niagara, called Oyonwayea, or Johnston’s Landing-Place,upon the lake named by the Indians Oswego, and by us Ontario ; fromthence southerly in a direction always four miles east of the carrying-path, between Lake Erie and Ontario , to the mouth of Tehoseroron orBuffaloe Creek on Lake Erie ; thence south to the north boundary ofthe state of Pennsylvania ; thence west to the end of the said northboundary; thence south along the west boundary of the said state, tothe river Ohio ; the said line from the mouth of the Oyonwayea to theOhio, shall be the western boundary of the lands of the Six Nations ,so that the Six Nations shall and do yield to the United States , all

Oct. 22, 1784.

Hostages to begiven till prison-ers are deliver-ed up.

Possession oflands secured.

Boundaries.