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 ARTICLES OF A TREATY Jea.9,17s0, Made at Fort Harmar, between Arthur St. Clair, Governor ey" the Territory of the United States North- West ejbthe Rwer of the President Ohio, and Commissioner Plempotentzary of the United States °fa:;° %§·t·h8 of America, for removing all Causes of Controversy, regalqttng i,,,,,,ygh,d b,,,,, Trade, and settling Boundarzes, with the Indzan Natzons m d¤iY ¤>¢i6¢d» the Northern Department, ey" the one Part; and the Sachem; S°P°' 27* USB' and Warriors of the VWandot, Delaware, Ottawa, Chzppewa, Pattawatima and Sac Nations, on the other Part. ARTICLE I. TWO ,,,,,80,,, WHEREAS the United States in Congress assembled, did, by their as hostages to Commissioners George Rogers Clark, Richard Butler, and Arthur Lee, ¥fgf‘T:§ilc‘g Esquires, duly appointed for that purpose, at a_treaty holden with the ,,,;,1 in-isoncrsWiandot, Delaware, Ottawa and Chippewa nations, at Fort M‘Intosh, are restored. on the twenty-first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand Ame P 16 seven hundred and eighty-five, conclude a peace with the Wyandots, ’' Delawares, Ottawas and Chippewas, and take them into their friendship and protection: And whereas at the said treaty it was stipulated that all prisoners that had been made by those nations, or either of them, should be delivered up to the United States. And whereas the said nations have now agreed to and with the aforesaid Arthur St. Clair, to renew and confirm all the engagements they had made with the United States of America, at the before mentioned treaty, except so far as are altered by these presents. And there are now in the possession of some individuals of these nations, certain prisoners, who have been taken by others not in peace with the said United States, or in violation of the treaties subsisting between the United States and them; the said nations agree to deliver up all the prisoners now in their hands (by what means soever they may have come into their possession) to the said Governor St. Clair, at Fort Harmar, or in his absence, to the officer commanding there, as soon as conveniently may be; and for the true performance of this agreement, they do now agree to deliver into his hands, two persons of the Wyandot Nation, to be retained in the hands of the United States as hostages, until the said prisoners are restored; alter which they shall be sent back to their nation. ARTICLE II. 30m,,],,. {gm, And whereas at the before mentioned treaty it was agreed between formerly fixed, the United States and said nations, that a boundary line should be Hxed
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° which boundary is as follows, viz.——Beginning at the mouth of Cayahoga river, and running thence up the said river to the portage between that and the Tuscarawa branch of Muskingum, then down the said branch to the forks at the crossing-place above fort Lawrence, thence westerly to the portage on that branch of the Big Miami river which runs into the Ohio, at the mouth of which branch the fort stood which was taken by the French in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two, then along the said portage to the Great Miami or Omie river, and down the south-east side of the same to its mouth; thence along the southern shore of Lake Erie to the mouth of Cayahoga, where it began. And the said WVyandot, Delaware, Ottawa and Chippewa Nations, for and in consideration of the peace then granted to them by the (28)