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 TREATY WITH THE SIX NATIONS. 1794. 45 ARTICLE II. The United States acknowledge the lands reserved to the Oneida, Certginlands Onondaga and Cayuga Nations, in their respective treaties with the 39¢¤¤'°d¤° I¤· state of New-York, and called their reservations, to be their property; '"‘°‘ and the United States will never claim the same, nor disturb them or either of the Six Nations, nor their Indian friends residing thereon and united with them, in the free use and enjoyment thereof : but the said reservations shall remain theirs, until they choose to sell the same to the people of the United States, who have the right to purchase. ARTICLE III. The land of the Seneka nation is bounded as follows: Beginning on Boundary of Lake Ontario, at the north-west corner of the land they sold to Oliver l¤¤<j_|¤ b§l°¤i*¤8 Phelps, the line runs westerly along the lake, as far a O-yong-wong-yeh KQ3oz_ °°° ° Creek, at Johnson’s Landing-place, about four miles eastward from the fort of Niagara; then southerly up that creek to its main fork, then straight to the main fork of Stedman’s creek, which emptie  into the river Niagara, above fort Schlosser, and then onward, from that fork, continuing the same straight course, to that river; (this line, from the mouth of O-yong-wong-yeh Creek to the river Niagara, above fort Schlosser, being the eastern boundary of a strip of land, extending from the same line to Niagara river, which the Seneka nation ceded to the King of Great-Britain, at a treaty held about thirty years ago, with Sir William Johnson;) then the line runs along the river Niagara to Lake Erie; then along Lake Erie to the north-east corner of a triangular piece of land which the United States conveyed to the state of Pennsylvania, as by the President’s patent, dated the third day of March, 1792 ; then due south to the northern boundary of that state; then due east to the south-west corner of the land sold by the Seneka nation to Oliver Phelps; and then north and northerly, along Phelps’s line, to the place df beginning on Lake Ontario. Now, the United States acknowledge all the land within the aforementioned boundaries, to be the property of the Seneka nation; and the United States will never claim the same, nor disturb the Seneka nation, nor any of the Six Nations, or of their Indian friends residing thereon and united with them, in the free use and enjoyment thereof z but it shall remain theirs, until they choose to sell the same to the people of the United States, who have the right to purchase. ARTICLE IV. The United States having thus described and acknowledged what Six Nations lands belong to the Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas and Senekas, and engaged never to claim the same, nor to disturb them, or any of the the U_S_ Six Nations, or their Indian friends residing thereon and united with them, in the free use and enjoyment thereof: Now, the Six Nations, and each of them, hereby engage that they will never claim any other lands within the boundaries of the United States; nor ever disturb the people of the United States in the free use and enjoyment thereof ARTICLE V. The Seneka nation, all others of the Six Nations concurring, cede Right to make to the United States the right of making a. waggon road from Fort mjd ;‘;‘;‘"°“d Schlosser to Lake Erie, as far south as Butfaloe Creek; and the people g an ` of the United States shall have the free and undisturbed use of this road, for the purposes of travelling and transportation. And the Six Nations, and each of them, will forever allow to the people of the United States, a free passage through their lands, and the free use of the harbours and rivers adjoining and within their respective tracts of land,