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 96 TREATY WITH THE CREEKS. 1805. Broom, or Can, nar, we, so, ska ¥ll::lEl;l;:¢:’¥:;0:da ti, hee, Bald Hunter, or Too, wa, ynl, [Ln, Kutiyeskee, LOUD l`;l¢I£f1;¤::ép¢;f§}u squal lookg, Toochalar, l°“°“ °· ° * Turtle at Home, or Sullicoo, kie, walar, gmc Heidi of  cuttggpima Dick Justice, ““"' °°» mw John Greenwood, or Eukoscttas, l¥lll°l’· Chulevah, or Gentleman Tom, I - Wrrnnssxs:—(Signed,) Robert Purdy, Secretary to the Commissioners. W. Yates, B. Com’g. Nicholas Byers, U. S. Factor. Wm. L. Lovely, Assistant Agent. B. McGhee. Ssml Love. James Blair. Hopkins Lacy. Chs. Hicks, Interpreter. 'To the Indian names are subioined a mark and seal. A C 0 NV E N T I O N Nov. 14,1sos. Between the United States and the Creek Nation of Indians, con- eluded at the City of Washington, on the fourteenth day q' June 2, mos.November, in the year of our Lord one thousand ezght hundred and jive. ARTICLES of a Convention made between Henry Dearborn, secretary of war, being specially authorised therefor by the President of the United States, and Oche Haujo, William M‘Intosh,Tuskenehau Chapce, Tuskenehnu, Enehau Thlucco, Checopeheke, Emantlau, chiefs and head men of the Creek nation of Indians, duly authorised and empowered by said nation. Cession by the Aer. I. The aforesaid chiefs and head men do hereby agree, in con- Creek l¤dl¤¤¤· sideration of certain sums of money and goods to be paid to the said Creek nation by the government of the United States as hereafier stipulated, to cede and forever quit claim, and do, in behalf of their nation, hereby cede, relinquish, and forever quit claim unto the United States all right, title, and interest, which the said nation have or claim, in or unto a certain tract of land, situate between the rivers Oconee and Ocmulgee (except as hereinafter excepted) and bounded as follows, viz: Boundaries. Beginning at the high shoals of Apalacha, where the line of the treaty of fort Wilkinson touches the same, thence running in a straight line, to the mouth of Ulcofauhatche, it being the first large branch or fork of the Ocmulgee, above the Seven Islands: Provided, however, That if the said line should strike the Ulcofauhatche, at any place above its mouth, that it shall continue round with that stream so as to leave the whole of it on the Indian side; then the boundary to continue from the mouth of the Ulcofauhatche, by the water’s edge of the Ocmulgee river, down to its junction with the Oconee; thence up the Oconee to the present boundary at Tauloohatche creek; thence up said creek and following the pre ent boundary line to the first-mentioned bounds, at the high shoals of Apalacha, excepting and reserving to the Creek nation, the title and possession of a tract of land, five miles in length and three in breadth, and bounded as follows, viz : Beginning on the eastern shore of the Ocmulgee river, at a point three miles on a straight line above the mouth of a creek called Oakchoncoolgau, which empties into the Ocmulgee, near the lower part of what is called the old Ocmulgee iields—thence running three miles eastwardly, on a course at right angles with the general course of the river for five miles helow the point of beg1nmng;——thence, from the end of the three miles, to run five