ARTICLES OF A TREATY
Jan. 9, 1789.
Proclamationof the Presidentof the U. S. ,stating that thetreaty had beenduly ratified,Sept. 27, 1789.
Boundary lineformerly fixed,renewed andconfirmed.
Made at Fort Harmar, between Arthur St. Clair , Governor ofthe Territory of the United States North-West of the RiverOhio, and Commissioner Plenipotentiary of the United Statesof America , for removing all Causes of Controversy, regulatingTrade, and settling Boundaries, with the Indian Nations inthe Northern Department, of the one Part; and the Sachemsand Warriors of the Wiandot, Delaware, Ottawa, Chippewa ,Pattawatima and Sac Nations, on the other Part.
ARTICLE I.
Whereas the United States in Congress assembled, did, by theirCommissioners George Rogers Clark , Richard Butler, and Arthur Lee,Esquires, duly appointed for that purpose, at a treaty holden with theWiandot, Delaware, Ottawa and Chippewa nations, at Fort MTntosh,on the twenty-first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousandseven hundred and eighty-five, conclude a peace with the Wyandots,Delawares, Ottawas and Chippewas , and take them into their friendshipand protection: And whereas at the said treaty it was stipulated thatall prisoners that had been made by those nations, or either of them,should be delivered up to the United States . And whereas the saidnations have now agreed to and with the aforesaid Arthur St. Clair , torenew and confirm all the engagements they had made with the UnitedStates of America , at the before mentioned treaty, except so far as arealtered by these presents. And there are now in the possession of someindividuals of these nations, certain prisoners, who have been taken byothers not in peace with the said United States , or in violation of thetreaties subsisting between the United States and them ; the said nationsagree to deliver up all the prisoners now in their hands (by what meanssoever they may have come into their possession) to the said GovernorSt. Clair, at Fort Harmar, or in his absence, to the officer commandingthere, as soon as conveniently may be; and for the true performance ofthis agreement, they do now agree to deliver into his hands, two personsof the Wyandot Nation, to be retained in the hands of the United States as hostages, until the said prisoners are restored; after which they shallbe sent back to their nation.
ARTICLE II.
And whereas at the before mentioned treaty it was agreed betweenthe United States and said nations, that a boundary line should be fixedbetween the lands of those nations and the territory of the United States ;which boundary is as follows, viz .—Beginning at the mouth of Cayahogariver, and running thence up the said river to the portage between thatand the Tuscarawa branch of Muskingum, then down the said branchto the forks at the crossing-place above fort Lawrence, thence westerlyto the portage on that branch of the Big Miami river which runs intothe Ohio , at the mouth of which branch the fort stood which was takenby the French in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred andfifty-two, then along the said portage to the Great Miami or Omie river,and down the south-east side of the same to its mouth; thence alongthe southern shore of Lake Erie to the mouth of Cayahoga, where itbegan. And the said Wyandot, Delaware , Ottawa and Chippewa Na-tions, for and in consideration of the peace then granted to them by the
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