ARTICLES OF A TREATY
Made at fort Harmar, the ninth day of January, in the year ofour Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, betweenArthur St. Clair, esquire, governor of the territory of the UnitedStates of America, north-west of the river Ohio , and commissionerplenipotentiary of the said United States , for removing allcauses of controversy, regulating trade, and settling boundaries,between the Indian nations in the northern department and thesaid United States , of the one part, and the sachems and war-riors of the Six JVations, of the other part :
Art. 1. Whereas the United States , in congress assembled, did, bytheir commissioners, Oliver Wolcott , Richard Butler, and Arthur Lee,esquires, duly appointed for that purpose, at a treaty held with the saidSix Nations, viz : with the Mohawks , Oneidas, Onondagas, Tuscaroras,Cayugas, and Senekas, at fort Stanwix, on the twenty-second day ofOctober, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, give peace to thesaid nations, and receive them into their friendship and protection:And whereas the said nations have now agreed to and with the saidArthur St. Clair , to renew and confirm all the engagements and stipula-tions entered into at the beforementioned treaty at fort Stanwix: andwhereas it was then and there agreed, between the United States ofAmerica and the said Six Nations , that a boundary line should be fixedbetween the lands of the said Six Nations and the territory of the saidUnited States , which boundary line is as follows, viz : Beginning at themouth of a creek, about four miles east of Niagara, called Ononwayea,or Johnston’s Landing Place, upon the lake named by the IndiansOswego, and by us Ontario ; from thence southerly, in a direction al-ways four miles east of the carrying place, between lake Erie and lakeOntario, to the mouth of Tehoseroton, or Buffalo creek, upon lakeErie; thence south, to the northern boundary of the state of Pennsyl-vania ; thence west, to the end of the said north boundary; thencesouth, along the west boundary of the said state to the river Ohio . Thesaid line, from the mouth of Ononwayea to the Ohio , shall be thewestern boundary of the lands of the Six Nations, so that the Six Na-tions shall and do yield to the United States , all claim to the countrywest of the said boundary; and then they shall be secured in the pos-session of the lands they inhabit east, north, and south of the same,reserving only six miles square, round the fort of Oswego , for the sup-port of the same. The said Six Nations, except the Mohawks , noneof whom have attended at this time, for and in consideration of thepeace then granted to them, the presents they then received, as well asin consideration of a quantity of goods, to the value of three thousanddollars, now delivered to them by the said Arthur St. Clair , the receiptwhereof they do hereby acknowledge, do hereby renew and confirm thesaid boundary line in the words beforementioned, to the end that it maybe and remain as a division line between the lands of the said Six Na-tions and the territory of the United States , forever. And the under-signed Indians, as well in their own names as in the name of theirrespective tribes and nations, their heirs and descendants, for the con-siderations beforementioned, do release, quit claim, relinquish, and cede,to the United States of America , all the lands west of the said boundaryor division line, and between the said line and the strait, from the mouth5 (33)
Jan. 9, 1789.
Reference to♦the treaty offort Stanwix.
Ante, p. 15.
Renewal ofengagements.