ARTICLES OF A TREATY,
Jan. 10,1786.
Indians to re-store prisonersand property.
Boundaries.
Concluded at Hopewell, on the Keowee, near Seneca Old Town,between Benjamin Hawkins, Andrew Pickens , and Joseph Mar-tin, Commissioners Plenipotentiary of the United States of Ame-rica , of the one Part; and Piomingo, Head Warrior and FirstMinister of the Chickasaw JVation ; Mingatushka, one of theleading Chiefs; and Latopoia, first beloved Man of the saidJVation, Commissioners Plenipotentiary of all the Chickasawsof the other Part.
The Commissioners Plenipotentiary of the United States of America give peace to the Chickasaw Nation, and receive them into the favourand protection of the said States, on the following conditions:
ARTICLE I.
The Commissioners Plenipotentiary of the Chickasaw nation, shallrestore all the prisoners, citizens of the United States , to their entireliberty, if any there be in the Chickasaw nation. They shall also re-store all the negroes, and all other property taken during the late war,from the citizens, if any there be in the Chickasaw nation, to suchperson, and at such time and place, as the Commissioners of the UnitedStates of America shall appoint.
ARTICLE II.
The Commissioners Plenipotentiary of the Chickasaws, do herebyacknowledge the tribes and the towns of the Chickasaw nation, to beunder the protection of the United States of America , and of no othersovereign whosoever.
ARTICLE III.
The boundary of the lands hereby allotted to the Chickasaw nationto live and hunt on, within the limits of the United States of America ,is, and shall be the following, viz. Beginning on the ridge that dividesthe waters running into the Cumberland, from those running into theTenessee, at a point in a line to be run north-east, which shall strikethe Tenessee, at the mouth of Duck river; thence running westerlyalong the said ridge, till it shall strike the Ohio ; thence down thesouthern banks thereof to the Missisippi; thence down the same, to theChoctaw line or Natches district; thence along the said line, or the lineof the district eastwardly as far as the Chickasaws claimed, and livedand hunted on, the twenty-ninth of November, one thousand seven hun-dred and eighty-two. Thence the said boundary, eastwardly, shall bethe lands allotted to the Choctaws and Cherokees to live and hunt on,and the lands at present in the possession of the Creeks; saving andreserving for the establishment of a trading post, a tract or parcel ofland to be laid out at the lower port of the Muscle shoals, at the mouthof Ocochappo, in a circle, the diameter of which shall be five miles onthe * river, which post, and the lands annexed thereto, shall be
to the use and under the government of the United States of America .
* The name of the river is not in the original.
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