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 120 TREATY WITH THE CREEKS. 1814. Ke-poo-ta, Ma·ko-ta-ne-cote, or black tree, Mac-kor-·ta, or crow, She-she-pa, or duck, I Pu-pe—ketcha, or [lat belly. Wa-pe-kon—nia, or white blanket, _ A·c0o-che, or the man hung, KZ€kaP°08• Che-kas-ka·ga-lon. Kee-too-te, or Otter, In presence of (the words ¢< and the Wyandots, Delawares, Shawanoese, and Senecas,” interlined in the first article betbre signing.) James Dill, Secretary to the commissioners. Jno. Johnston, Indian Agent. B. F, Stickney, Indian Agent. James J. Nisbet, Associate Judge of Court of Common Pleas, Preble county. Thos. G. Gibson. Antoine Boindi, William Walker, William Conner, J. Bte. Chandonnai, Stephen Reeddeed, James Peltier, Joseph Bertrand, Sworn Interpreters. Thomas Ramsey,captain lst ride regiment. John Conner. John Riddle, col. lst regiment Ohio militia. To the Indian names are subjoined a mark and seal. ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT AND CAPITULATION, Aug g_ mr Made and concluded this ninth day aj August, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, between mayor general Andrew Jackson, I • · · Feb. 16, 1815. on behaU of the President of the United States of America, and the chiefs, deputies, and warriors of the Creek Nation. WHEREAS an unprovoked, inhuman, and sanguinary war, waged by the hostile Creeks against the United States, hath been repelled, prosecuted and determined, successfully, on the part of the said States, in conformity with principles of national justice and honorable warfare— And whereas consideration is due to the rectitude of proceeding dictated by instructions relating to the re-establishment of peace: Be it remembered, that prior to the conquest of that part of the Creek nation hostile to the United States, numberless aggressions had been committed against the 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 Duck river, Fort Mimms, and elsewhere, contrary to national faith, and the regard due to an article of the treaty concluded at New-York, in the year seventeen hundred ninety, between the two nations: That the United States, previously to the perpetration of such outrages, did, in order to ensure future amity and concord between the Creek nation and the said states, in conformity with the stipulations of former treaties, fulfil, with punctuality and good faith, her engagements to the said nation: that more than two-thirds of the whole number of chiefs and warriors of the Creek nation, disregarding the genuine spirit of existing treaties, suffered themselves to be instigated to violations of their national honor, and the respect due to a part of their own nation faithful to the United States and the principles of humanity, by impostures [impostors,] denominating themselves Prophets, and by the duplicity and misrepresentation of foreign emissaries, whose governments are at war, open or understood, with the United States. YVherefore, ·CgggiOn cfm. lst-jThe United States demand an equivalent for all expences in· Ewrykbv the _ curred in prosecuting the war to its termination, by a cession of all the v£;$ui3S{,;°§“*’ territory belonging to the Creek nation within the territories of the expgpggg of the United States, lying west, south, and south-eastwardly, of a line to be WM- run and described by persons duly authorized and appointed by the President of the United States—Beginning at a point on the eastern bank of the Coosa river, where the south boundary line of the Cherokee