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TREATY WITH THE CREEKS. 1814.
Ma-ko-ta-ne-cote, or black tree,She-she-pa, or duck,Wa-pe-kon-nia, or white blanket,A-coo-che, or the man hung,Che-kas-ka-ga-lon.
In presence of (the words “ and the Wyandots, Delawares , Shawanoese, and Sene-cas,” interlined in the first article before signing.) James Dill, Secretary to the com-missioners. Jno. Johnston, Indian Agent. B. F. Stickney, Indian Agent. James J,Nisbet, Associate Judge of Court of Common Pleas, Preble county. Thos. G. Gib-son. Antoine Boindi, William Walker, William Conner, J. Bte. Chandonnai, StephenReeddeed, James Peltier, Joseph Bertrand, Sworn Interpreters. Thomas Ramsey, cap-tain 1st rifle regiment. John Conner. John Riddle, col. 1st regiment Ohio militia.
To the Indian names are subjoined a mark and seal.
ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT AND CAPITULATION,
Aug. 9, 1814.
Proclamation,Feb. 16, 1815.
Made and concluded this ninth day of August, one thousand eighthundred and fourteen, between major general Andrew Jackson ,on behalf of the President of the United States of America , andthe chiefs, deputies, and warriors of the Creek JVation.
Whereas an unprovoked, inhuman, and sanguinary war, waged bythe hostile Creeks against the United States , hath been repelled, prose-cuted and determined, successfully, on the part of the said States , inconformity with principles of national justice and honorable warfare—And whereas consideration is due to the rectitude of proceeding dictatedby instructions relating to the re-establishment of peace: Be it remem-bered, that prior to the conquest of that part of the Creek nation hostileto the United States , numberless aggressions had been committed againstthe peace, the property, and the lives of citizens of the United States ,and those of the Creek nation in amity with her, at the mouth of Duckriver, Fort Mimms, and elsewhere, contrary to national faith, and theregard due to an article of the treaty concluded at New-York , in theyear seventeen hundred ninety, between the two nations: That theUnited States , previously to the perpetration of such outrages, did, inorder to ensure future amity and concord between the Creek nation andthe said states, in conformity with the stipulations of former treaties,fulfil, with punctuality and good faith, her engagements to the saidnation: that more than two-thirds of the whole number of chiefs andwarriors of the Creek nation, disregarding the genuine spirit of existingtreaties, suffered themselves to be instigated to violations of their nationalhonor, and the respect due to a part of their own nation faithful to theUnited States and the principles of humanity, by impostures [impostors,]denominating themselves Prophets, and by the duplicity and misrepre-sentation of foreign emissaries, whose governments are at war, open orunderstood, with the United States . Wherefore,
Cession of ter-ritory by theCreeks as equi-valent to theexpenses of thewar.
1st—The United States demand an equivalent for all expences in-curred in prosecuting the war to its termination, by a cession of all theterritory belonging to the Creek nation within the territories of theUnited States , lying west, south, and south-eastwardly, of a line to berun and described by persons duly authorized and appointed by thePresident of the United States — Beginning at a point on the easternbank of the Coosa river, where the south boundary line of the Cherokee