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TREATY WITH THE SHAWNEES. 1786.
endeavours to maintain the peace given as aforesaid, and friendship re-established.
In witness of all and every thing herein contained, between the saidStates and Chickasaws, we, their under-written Commissioners, byvirtue of our full powers, have signed this definitive treaty, andhave caused our seals to be hereunto affixed.
Done at Hopewell, on the Keowee, this tenth day of January, in theYear of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six.
Piomingo,
Mingatushka,
Latopoia.
Witness :— Wm. Blount, Wm, Hazzard, Sam. Taylor. James Cole, Sworn In*terpreter.
To the Indian names are subjoined a mark and seal.
AETICLES OF A TEEATY
Jan. 31,1786. Concluded at the Mouth of the Great Miami, on the North-west-
ern Bank of the Ohio , the thirty-first day of January, one thou-sand seven hundred and eighty-six, between the CommissionersPlenipotentiary of the United States of America , of the onePart, and the Chiefs and Warriors of the Shawanoe Nation,of the other Part.
ARTICLE I.
Hostages deli- Three hostages shall be immediately delivered to the Commissioners,vered till prison- to remain in the possession of the United States untill all the prisoners,ers are restored. w h|te and black, taken in the late war from among the citizens of the
United States , by the Shawanoe nation, or by any other Indian or In-dians residing in their towns, shall be restored.
ARTICLE II.
The Shawanoe nation do acknowledge the United States to be thesole and absolute sovereigns of all the territory ceded to them by a treatyof peace, made between them and the King of Great Britain , the four-
Indians ac-knowledge theright of U. S, toterritory ceded
ARTICLE III.
To deliver up If any Indian or Indians of the Shawanoe nation, or any other Indian
criminals.
or Indians residing in their towns, shall commit murder or robbery on,
or do any injury to the citizens of the United States , or any of them,that nation shall deliver such offender or offenders to the officer com-manding the nearest post of the United States , to be punished accordingto the ordinances of Congress; and in like manner, any citizen of theUnited States , who shall do an injury to any Indian of the Shawanoenation, or to any other Indian or Indians residing in their towns, andunder their protection, shall be punished according to the laws of theUnited States .