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 TREATY WITH THE NEW YORK INDIANS. 1838. 559 George White, by his John Bennet, agent, While Seneca, Seneca White, John Snow, Maris B. Pierce, Walter Thompson, by his David White, agent, Daniel Two Guns, James Shongo, Long John, William Cass, John Bark, Samuel Wilson, George Lindsey, John Seneca. Jacob Bennet, Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of James Stryker. Nathaniel T. Strong, Spencer H. Cone, Interpreters. H. B. Potter. Charles H. Allen. To the Indian names are uubjoineda mark and seal. At the beforementioned treaty, held in my presence, as superintendent on the part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and this day concluded, the foregoing instrument of writing was agreed to by the contracting parties therein named, and was in my presence executed by them, and being approved by me, I do hereby certify and declare such my approbation thereof Witness my hand and seal, at Buffalo Creek, this 15th day of J anuary in the year 1838. JOSIAH TROWBRIDGE. I have attended a treaty of the Seneca nation of Indians, held at But? falo Creek, in the county of Erie, in the State of New York, on the fifteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight when the within instrument was duly executed, in my presence, by the chiefs of the Seneca nation, being fairly and properly understood by them. I do, therefore, certify and approve the same. R. H. GILLET, Commissioner. At a treaty held under and by the authority of the United States of Jan, 15, 1838, America, at Buffalo Creek, in the county of Erie, and State of New York, between the sachems, chiefs and warriors of the Tuscarora nation rhs me gflgndg of Indians, duly assembled in council and representing and acting for by dw 'I`¤¤¤¤¤>· the said nation, on the one part and Thomas Ludlow Ogden of the city ;}E,&°;;]:c,§?t° of New York and Joseph Fellows of Geneva in the county of Ontario, sms, referred on the other part, concerning the purchase of the right and claim of the *0 in *h° Nth said nation of Indians in and to the lands within the State of New York, °m°l°' remaining in their occupation: Ransom H. Gillet, Esquire, a commissioner appointed by the President of the United States to attend and hold the said treaty, and also Josiah Trowbridge, Esquire, the superintendent on behalf of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being severally present at the said treaty, the said sachems, chiefs and warriors, on behalf of the said Tuscarora nation, did agree to sell and release to the said Thomas Ludlow Ogden and Joseph Fellows, and they, the said Thomas Ludlow Ogden and Joseph Fellows did agree to purchase all the right, title and claim of the said Tuscarora nation of, in and to the tract, piece, or parcel of land mentioned and described in the instrument of writing next hereinafter set forth, and at the price, or sum therein specified, as the consideration or purchase money for such sale and release; which instrument being read and explained to the said parties, and mutually agreed to, was signed and sealed by the said contracting parties, and is in the words following: This indenture, made this fifteenth day of January in the year of our The (lend gf Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, between the sachems, ¤0¤v¤y¤¤<>¢· chiefs and warriors of the Tuscarora nation of Indians, duly assembled in council, and acting for and on behalf of the said Tuscarora nation