Miami Treaty of St. Mary's

              Articles of a treaty made and concluded, at St. Mary's, in the State of Ohio,
between Jonathan Jennings, Lewis Cass, and Benjamin Parke, Commissioners
of the United States, and the Miame nation of Indians.

ARTICLE 1.
The Miami nation of Indians�cede to the United States the following tract of 
country: Beginning at the Wabash river, where the present Indian boundary line
crosses the same, near the mouth of"
Raccoon creek; thence, up the Wabash river, to the reserve at its head, near
Fort Wayne; thence, to the reserve at Fort Wayne; thence, with the lines
thereof, to the St. Mary's river; thence, up the St. Mary's river, to the reservation
at the portage; thence, with the line of the cession made by the Wyandot nation
of Indians to the United States, at the foot of the Rapids of the Miami of Lake
Erie, on the 29th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventeen, to the reservation at Loramie's store; thence, with the
present Indian boundary line, to Fort Recovery; and, with the line, following the
courses thereof, to the place of beginning."

ARTICLE 2.
From the cession aforesaid�the following reservations, for the use of the Miami
nation of Indians, shall be made; one reservation, extending along the Wabash
river, from the mouth of Salamanie river to the mouth of Eel river, and from
those points, running due south, a distance equal to a direct line from the mouth
of Salamanie river to the mouth of Eel river. One other reservation, of two miles
square, on the river Salamanie, at the mouth of Atchepongqwawe creek. One
other reservation, of six miles square, on the Wabash river, below the forks

thereof. One other reservation, of ten miles square, opposite the mouth of the
river A Bouette. One other reservation, of ten miles square, at the village on
Sugar Tree Creek. One other reservation, of two miles square, at the mouth of a
creek, called Flat Rock, where the road to White river crosses the same.

ARTICLE 3.
The United States agree to grant, by patent, in fee simple, to�Jean Bapt.
Richardville, principal chief of the Miami nation of Indians, the following tracts of
land: Three sections of land, beginning about twenty-five rods below his house
on the river St. Mary's, near Fort Wayne; thence, at right angles with the course
of the river, one mile; and from this line, and the said river, up the stream
thereof, for quantity. Two sections, upon the east side of the St. Mary's river
near Fort Wayne, running east one mile with the line of the military reservation;
thence, from that line, and from the river, for quantity. Two sections, on the
Twenty-seven mile creek, where the road from St. Mary's to Fort Wayne
crosses it, being one section on each side of said creek.

Two sections on the left bank of the Wabash, commencing at the forks and
running down the river.

The United States also�agree to grant to each of the following persons, being
"Miami Indians by birth, and their heirs, the tracts of land herein described

To Joseph Richardville and Joseph Richardville, jun. two sections of land, being
one on each side of the St. Mary's river, and below the reservation made on that
river by the treaty of Greenville, in 1795.

To Wemetche or the Crescent, one section, below and adjoining the reservation
of Anthony Chesne, on the west side of the St. Mary's river, and one section
immediately opposite to Macultamunqua or Black Loon.

To Keenquatakqua or Long Hair, Aronzon or Twilight, Peconbequa or a Woman
striking, Aughquamauda or Difficulty, and to Miaghqua or Noon, as joint tenants,
five sections of land upon the Wabash river, the centre of which shall be the
Wyandot village, below the mouth of Tippecanoe river.

To Fran�ois Godfroy, six sections of land, on the Salamanie river, at a place 
called La Petite Prairie.

To Louis Godfroy, six sections of land, upon the St. Mary's river, above the 
reservation of Anthony Shane.

To Charley, a Miamie chief, one section of land, on the west side of the St.
Mary's river, below the section granted to Pemetche or the Crescent.

To the two eldest children of Peter Langlois, two sections of land, at a place
formerly called Village du Puant, at the mouth of the river called
Pauceaupichoux.

To the children of Antoine Bondie, two sections of land, on the border of the
Wabash river, opposite a place called l'Esle a l'Aille.

To Fran�ois Lafontaine and his son, two sections of land, adjoining and above
the two sections granted to Jean Bapt. Richardville, near Fort Wayne, and on
the same side of the St. Mary's river.

To the children of Antoine Rivarre, two sections of land, at the mouth of the
Twenty-seven mile creek, and below the same.

To Peter Langlois' youngest child, one section of land, opposite the Chipaille, at
the Shawnese village.

To Peter Labadie, one section of land, on the river St. Mary's, below the section
granted to Charley.

"To the son of George Hunt, one section of land, on the west side of the St. "
"Mary's river, adjoining the two sections granted to Fran�ois Lafontaine and his son."

"To Meshenoqua or the Little Turtle, one section of land, on the south side of the "
"Wabash, where the portage path strikes the same."