AT A TREATY
Held at the city of JVew York, with the Nations or Tribes of In-dians, denominating themselves the Seven Nations of Canada ;Abraham Ogden, Commissioner, appointed under the Authorityof the United States, to hold the Treaty ; Ohnaweio, alias Good-stream, Teharagwanegen, alias Thomas Williams, two Chiefsof the Caghnawagas; Atiatoharongwan, alias Colonel LewisCook, a Chief of the St. Regis Indians, and William Gray,Deputies, authorized to represent these Seven Nations or Tribesof Indians at the Treaty , and Mr. Gray, serving also as Inter-preter ; Egbert Benson, Richard Varick and James Watson,Agents for the State of New- York ; William Constable andDaniel M‘Cormick, Purchasers under Alexander Macomb :
The agents for the state, having, in the presence, and with the appro-bation of the commissioner, proposed to the deputies for the Indians,the compensation hereinafter mentioned, for the extinguishment oftheir claim to all lands within the state, and the said deputies beingwilling to accept the same, it is thereupon granted, agreed and con-cluded between the said deputies and the said agents, as follows: Thesaid deputies do, for and in the name of the said Seven Nations ortribes of Indians, cede, release and quit claim to the people of the stateof New-York, forever, all the claim, right, or title of them, the saidSeven Nations or tribes of Indians, to lands within the said state:Provided nevertheless, That the tract equal to six miles square, reservedin the sale made by the commissioners of the land-office of the saidstate, to Alexander Macomb , to be applied to the use of the Indians ofthe village of St. Regis, shall still remain so reserved. The said agentsdo, for, and in the name of the people of the state of New-York , grantto the said Seven Nations or tribes of Indians, that the people of thestate of New-York shall pay to them, at the mouth of the riv-er Chazy,on Lake Champlain , on the third Monday in August next, the sum ofone thousand two hundred and thirty-three pounds, six shillings andeight-pence, and the further sum of two hundred and thirteen poundssix shillings and eight-pence, lawfull money of the said state, and onthe third Monday in August, yearly, forever thereafter, the like sum oftwo hundred and thirteen pounds six shillings and eight-pence: Pro-vided nevertheless, That the people of the state of New-York shall notbe held to pay the said sums, unless in respect, to the two sums to bepaid on the third Monday in August next, at least twenty, and in respectto the said yearly sum to be paid thereafter, at least five of the principalmen of the said Seven Nations or tribes of Indians, shall attend asdeputies to receive and to give receipts for the same : The said deputieshaving suggested, that the Indians of the village of St. Regis have builta mill on Salmon river, and another on Grass river, and that the mea-dows on Grass river are necessary to them for hay; in order, therefore,to secure to the Indians of the said village, the use of the said mills andmeadows, in case they should hereafter appear not to be included withinthe above tract so to remain reserved; it is, therefore, also agreed andconcluded between the said deputies, the said agents, and the said Wil-liam Constable and Daniel M'Cormick, for themselves and their asso-ciates, purchasers under the said Alexander Macomb , of the adjacent
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May 31, 1796.
Proclamation,Jan. 31, 1797.
Considerationpaid therefor.