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TREATY WITH THE CREEKS. 1802.
of the United States of America , by and with the advice and consentof the Senate thereof.
In testimony whereof, the Commissioners Plenipotentiary of theUnited States , and the Mingos, principal men and warriors of theChactaw nation, have hereto subscribed their names and affixedtheir seals, at Fort Adams, on the Mississippi , this seventeenth dayof December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundredand one, and of the independence of the United States the twenty-sixth.
Tuskona Hopoia,
Toota Homo,
Mingo Homo Massatubby,Oak Chumme,
Mingo Poos,coos,Buckshun Nubby,
Shappa Homo,
Hi,u,pa Homo,
II,la talla, Homo ,Hoche Homo,Tuspena Ohaabb,Muctusha Hopoia,Capputanne Thlucco,Robert M'Clure,Poosha Homo,
Ba ka Lub,bfe.
Witnesses presext: —Alexander Macomb , jun. secretary to the commission;John M‘Kee, deputy superintendant and agent to the Chactaws; Henry Gaither, lieu-tenant colonel commandant; John H. Brull, major second regiment infantry; Bn.Shaumburgh, captain second regiment infantry; Fran. Jones, assistant quarter mas-ter general; Benjamin Wilkinson, lieutenant and paymaster third United States regi-ment ; J. B. Walbach, aid de camp to the commanding general; J. Wilson, lieutenantthird regiment infantry; Samuel Jeton, lieutenant second regiment of artillery andengineers; John F. Carmichael, surgeon third regiment United States army.
To the Indian names are subjoined a mark and seal.
A TREATY OF LIMITS
June 16, 1802.
Proclamation,Jan. 11, 1803.
Between the United States of America and the Creek Nation of
Indians.
Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America , byJames Wilkinson, of the state of Maryland , Brigadier General in thearmy of the United States, Benjamin Hawkins , of North-Carolina, andAndrew Pickens of South-Carolina , Commissioners Plenipotentiary ofthe United States , on the one part, and the Kings, Chiefs, Head Menand Warriors of the Creek Nation, in council assembled, on the otherpart, have entered into the following articles and conditions, viz.
Article I. The Kings, Chiefs, Head men and Warriors of the Creeknation, in behalf of the said nation, do by these presents cede to theUnited States of America , all that tract and tracts of land, situate, lyingand being within and between the following bounds, and the lines andlimits of the extinguished claims of the said nation, heretofore ascer-tained and established by treaty. That is to say—beginning at, theupper extremity of the high shoals of the Appalachee river, the samebeing a branch of the Oconee river, and on the southern bank of thesame—running thence a direct course to a noted ford of the southbranch of Little river, called by the Indians Chat-to-chuc-co hat-chee—thence a direct line to the main branch of Commissioners’ creek, wherethe same is intersected by the path leading from the rock-landing to the