TREATY WITH THE CHICKASAWS. 1805.
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Tondawganie, or the Dog ,Ashawet.
Chippawa.
Macquettoquet, or Little Bear,Quitchonequit, or Big Cloud,Queoonequetwabaw,
Oscaguasanu, or Young Boy,Monimack, or Cat Fish,Tonguish.
Potawatima.
Noname,
Mogawh.
Wyandots.
Tarhee, or the Crane,
Miere, or Walk in Water,
Signed in presence of Wm. Dean, C. F.more Knaggs, Wm. Walker, Interpreters.
Thateyyanayoh, or Leather Lips,Harrowenyou, or Cherokee Boy,Tschauendah,
Tahunehawetee, or Adam Brown,Shawrunthie.
Munsee and Delaware .Puckconsittond,
Paahmehelot,
Pamoxet, or Armstrong,Pappellelond, or Beaver Hat.
Shawanee.
Weyapeirscawaw,or Blue Jacket,Cutheaweasaw, or Black Hoff,Auonasechla, or Civil Man,
Isaac Peters.
j. C. J. B. Mower. Jasper Parrish, Whit-Israel Buland. E. Brush.
To the Indian names are subjoined a mark and seal.
ARTICLES
Of arrangement made and concluded in the Chickasaw country,between James Robertson and Silas Dinsmoor, commissioners ofthe United Stales of the one part, and the Mingo chiefs andwarriors of the Chickasaio nation of Indians on the other part.
Art. I. Whereas the Chickasaw nation of Indians have been forsome time embarrassed by heavy debts due to their merchants andtraders, and being destitute of funds to effect important improvementsin their country, they have agreed and do hereby agree to cede to theUnited States , and forever quit claim to the tract of country includedwithin the following bounds, to wit: beginning on the left bank of Ohio ,at the point where the present Indian boundary adjoins the same, thencedown the left bank of Ohio to the Tennessee river , thence up the mainchannel of the Tennessee river to the mouth of Duck river; thence upthe left bank of Duck river to the Columbian highway or road leadingfrom Nashville to Natchez, thence along the said road to the ridge di-viding the waters running into Duck river from those running into Buf-faloe river, thence eastwardly along the said ridge to the great ridgedividing the waters running into the main Tennessee river from thoserunning into Buffaloe river near the main source of Buffaloe river, thencein a direct line to the Great Tennessee river near the Chickasaw oldfields or eastern point of the Chickasaw claim on that river; thencenorthwardly to the great ridge dividing the waters running into theTennessee from those running into Cumberland river, so as to includeall the waters running into Elk river, thence along the top of the saidgreat ridge to the place of beginning : reserving a tract of one milesquare adjoining to, and below the mouth of Duck river on the Ten-nessee , for the use of the chief O’Koy or Tishumastubbee.
Art. II. The United States on their part, and in consideration ofthe above cession, agree to make the following payments, to wit:Twenty thousand dollars for the use of the nation at large, and for thepayment of the debts due to their merchants and traders; and to George12 h 2
July 23, 1805.
Considerationfor said grant.