RELINQUISHMENT
To New York, by the Mohawk nation of Indians, under the sanc-tion of the United States of America , of all claim to lands in
that state.
At a treaty held under the authority of the United States , with theMohawk nation of Indians, residing in the province of Upper Canada ,within the dominions of the king of Great Britain , present, the honor-able Isaac Smith, commissioner appointed by the United States to holdthis treaty; Abraham Ten Broeck, Egbert Benson , and Ezra L’Hom-medieu, agents for the state of New York; captain Joseph Brandt , andcaptain John Deserontyon, two of the said Indians and deputies, torepresent the said nation at this treaty.
The said agents having, in the presence, and with the approbation ofthe said commissioner, proposed to and adjusted with the said deputies,the compensation as hereinafter mentioned to be made to the said nation,for their claim, to be extinguished by this treaty, to all lands within thesaid state: it is thereupon finally agreed and done, between the saidagents, and the said deputies, as follows, that is to say : the said agentsdo agree to pay to the said deputies, the sum of one thousand dollars,for the use of the said nation, to be by the said deputies paid over to,and distributed among, the persons and families of the said nation, ac-cording to their usages. The sum of five hundred dollars, for the ex-penses of the said deputies, during the time they have attended thistreaty: and the sum of one hundred dollars, for their expenses in re-turning, and for conveying the said sum of one thousand dollars, towhere the said nation resides. And the said agents do accordingly, forand in the name of the people of the state of New York , pay the saidthree several sums to the said deputies, in the presence of the said com-missioner. And the said deputies do agree to cede and release, andthese presents witness, that they accordingly do, for and in the name ofthe said nation, in consideration of the said compensation, cede andrelease to the people of the state of New York , forever, all the right ortitle of the said nation to lands within the said state: and the claim ofthe said nation to lands within the said state, is hereby wholly and finallyextinguished.
March 29,1797.
Proclamation,April 27, 1798.
In testimony whereof, the said commissioner, the said agents, and thesaid deputies, have hereunto, and to two other acts, of the sametenor and date, one to remain with the United States , one to remainwith the said state, and one delivered to the said deputies, to remainwith the said nation, set their hands and seals, at the city of Al-bany, in the said state, the 29th day of March, in the year 1797.
ISAAC SMITH.
Abm. Ten Broeck, Jos. Brandt ,
Egbt. Benson , John Deserontyon.
Ezra E'Hommedieu,
Witnesses :—Robert Yates, John Tayler , Chas. Williamson, Thomas Morris,
The mark of John Abeel, alias the Cornplanter, a chief of the Senekas .
To the Indian names is subjoined a seal.
[For a contract, dated Sept. 15, 1797, between Robert Morris and the Senecas, enteredinto under the sanction of the United States , see post, Appendix 1. p. 601.]
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