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 TREATY WITH THE CHIPPEWAS. 1842. 591 Thompson S. Harris, Seneca White, Sah-go-en-toh, or Morris Halftown, Gesh-u-aw, or James Shongo, Ten-wan·ne-us, or Governor Black Snake, Jarvis Spraing, Doa·ne-pho-gah, or Little Johnson, Ti·at-tah-co, or Adam Dextador, Joh-nesh-ha-dih, or James Stevenson, Moris B. Pierce, Ho·wah-tan·eh-goh, or John Pierce, So-gooh·quas, or John Tallchiet, Da·gon-on-de, or William Patterson, Isaac Halftown, Samuel Goudon, David Snow, Tunis Halftown, John Bark, Han-sa-nea-nes, or White Seneca, George Killbuck, Gahmang-ga-eot, or Young Chief, George Dennis, Thomas Jimeson, John Kennedy, sen., Moses Stevenson, Abram John, Jonah Armstrong, Job Pierce, Joseph Silverheels, Saw-da-ne, or George Deer, Da-o-as·sah-au, or Jo. Hunlock, Ga-na-waw, or John Cook, George Fox, Jaw-ne-es, or John Dickey, Yaw-sau-ge, or Peter Johnson, George Big Deer, N oh-sok-dah, or Jim Jonas, Nah-joh-gau-eh, or Tall Peter, Dih-no-se-du, or Jacob Shongo, John Kennedy, jr. Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of ——-. The words << and Alle. gany" in the sixth page being interlined. A. Dixon, Commissioner on the part of New York. Berg. Ferris, Orlando Allen, Asher Wright, O. I·I. Marshall, Elam R. Jewett, Cortland . Stebbins, Joseph S. Wasson. To the Indian names are subjolned a mark and seal. ARTICLES OF A TREATY Made and concluded at La Pointe of Lake Superior, in the Ter- oo. 4, 1e42. ritory if Wisconsin, between Robert Stuart commissioner on the part m' the United States, and the Chippewa Indians of the March23, 1843. Jmssissnnpi, and Lake Superior, by their chiefs and headmen. ARTICLE I. Tim Chippewa Indians of the Mississippi and Lake Superior, cede Land ceded to to the United States all the country within the following bounderies; the U· S- viz: beginning at the mouth of Chocolate river of Lake Superior; thence northwardly across said lake to intersect the boundery line between the United States and the Province of Canada; thence up said Lake Superior, to the mouth of the St. Louis, or Fond du·Lac river (including all the islands in said lake) ; thence up said river to the American Fur Company’s trading post, at the southwardly bend thereof) about 22 miles from its mouth; thence south to intersect the line of the Ame P 53,, treaty of 29th July 1837, with the Chippewas of the Mississippi; thence ’ along said line to its southeastwardly extremity, near the Plover portage 0n the Wisconsin river; thence northeastwardly, along the boundery line, between the Chippewas and Menomonees, to its eastern termina— AMC] p_ 303 tion, (established by the treaty held with the Chippewas, Menomonees, and Winnebagoes, at Butte des Morts, August 11th 1827) on the Skonawby river of Green Bay; thence northwardly to the source of Chocolate river; thence down said river to its mouth, the place, of beginning; it being the intention of the parties to this treaty, to include in this cession, all the Chippewa lands eastwardly of the aforesaid line