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 ARTICLES OF A TREATY Made at fort Harmar, the ninth day of January, in the year of Jan. 9, 1169. our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, between ""'“""‘—" .drth ur St. Clair, esguire, governor of the territory of the United States of.Hmerica, north—west of the river O/aio, and commissioner pleninotentiary of the said United States, for removing all causes of controversy, regulating trade, and settling boundaries, between the Indian nations in the northern department and the said United States, <f the one part, and the sachems and warriors of the Six Nations, ¢y" the other part : ART. 1. Wnsnsss the United States, in congress assembled, did, by Reference ,0 their commissioners, Oliver Wolcott, Richard Butler, and Arthur Lee, the treaty 9f esquires, duly appointed for that purpose, at a treaty held with the said f°“ S“’“"’"‘· Six Nations, viz: with the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Tuscaroras, Ante, p. 15. Cayugas, and Senekas, at fort Stanwix, on the twenty-second day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, give peace to the said nations, and receive them into their friendship and protection: And whereas the said nations have now agreed to and with the said Reneweref Arthur St. Clair, to renew and confirm all the engagements and stipula- engagements tions entered into at the beforementioned treaty at fort Stanwix: and whereas it was then and there agreed, between the United States of America and the said Six Nations, that a boundary line should be fixed between the lands of the said Six Nations and the territory of the said United States, which boundary line is as follows, viz: Beginning at the mouth of a creek, about four miles east of Niagara, called Ononwayea, or Johnston’s Landing Place, upon the lake named by the Indians Oswego, and by us Ontario; from thence southerly, in a direction always four miles east of the carrying place, between lake Erie and lake Ontario, to the mouth of Tehoseroton, or Buffalo creek, upon lake Erie; thence south, to the northern boundary of the state of Pennsylvania; thence west, to the end of the said north boundary; thence south, along the west boundary of the said state to the river Ohio. The said line, from the mouth of Ononwayea to the Ohio, shall be the western boundary of the lands of the Six Nations, so that the Six Nations shall and do yield to the United States, all claim to the country west of the said boundary; and then they shall be secured in the possession of the lands they inhabit east, north, and south of the same, reserving only six miles square, round the fort of Oswego, for the support of the same. The said Six Nations, except the Mohawks, none The Mohawks of whom have attended at this time, for and in consideration of the °X°€P‘°d· peace then granted to them, the presents they then received, as well as in consideration of a quantity of goods, to the value of three thousand dollars, now delivered to them by the said Arthur St. Clair, the receipt whereof they do hereby acknowledge, do hereby renew and confirm the said boundary line in the words beforementioned, to the end that it may Old boundary be and remain as a division line between the lands of the said Six Na- confirmed. tions and the territory of the United States, forever. And the under- Lands wesror signed Indians, as well in their own names as in the name of their Snidline ceded respective tribes and nations, their heirs and descendants, for the con- f" "°' ‘° U‘S’ siderations beforementioned, do release, quit claim, relinquish, and cede, to the United States of America, all the lands west of the said boundary or division line, and between the said line and the strait, from the mouth 5 (33)