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 354 TREATY WITH THE SENECAS, ETC. 1831. in regard to the future welfare and permanent settlement of the Indian tribes. ]€*‘,§L¤*<> H-H- Amrcnm XIII. At the request of the aforesaid chiefs, there is hereby ° °rs°°' granted to Henry H. McPherson, an adopted son of their nation, a half section of land, to contain three hundred and twenty acres, to be added to a half section of land granted to him by the Sdld chiefs on the 20th day of March 1821, and approved by the President of the United States, which is to be so laid oil` as to enlarge the last mentioned grant to a square section. Grant to inter. AM‘1cL¤ XIV. At the special request of the aforesaid chiefs, one Pf¤*¤¤· quarter section of land, to contain one hundred and sixty acres, is hereby granted to Martin Lane their interpreter, who married a quarter blood Indian woman, and has lived a long time among the Senecas. The said quarter section is to be located under the direction of the President of the United States. Explanatory_ Arvrrcnn XV. It is understood and agreed by the present contracting parties that the words, "the lands heretofore donated to him" in the twelfth article of this treaty, have direct and sole reference to a verbal donation heretofore made by the said Senecas and Shawnees to the said McPherson, and that the intention is that this treaty should conhrm the former as well as the latter grant, so that the said McPherson is entitled to one whole section to be located in the southeast corner of the Shawnee part of the lands herein ceded as aforesaid. IN TESTIMONY Hanson the present contracting parties respectively have signed their hands, and aflixed their seals the day and year aforesaid, at Pleasant Plains near Lewistown in the State of Ohio. JAMES B. GARDINER, JOHN McELVAIN. Methomea, or Civil John. James McDonnell. Skilleway, or Robbin. Honede, or Civil J ohn’s Son. Totnlu Chief, or John Young. Run fast. Pewyache. Yankee Bill. Mingo Carpenter. Cold Water. John Jackson. John Sky. Quashacaugh, or Little Lewis. Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of us :——David Robb, Sub-agent. James McPherson, Joseph Parks, U. S. Interpreters. N. Z. McColloch, H. E. Spencer, \Vrn. Rianhard, John Shelby, Alexander Thomson, H. B. Strother, Benj. S. Brown, D. M. Workman, R. Patterson, A. O. Spencer, Jas. Stewart, Stephen Gitlin. 1 do hereby certify that each andlevery article of the foregoing convention and agreement, was carefully explained and fully interpreted by me to the chiefs, head men, and warriors who have signed the same. MARTIN LANE, U S. Inlnrpreter. To me Indian names are subdninetl n mark and seal.