War of 1812 Era · 1805

Treaty with the Piankeshaws, Dec. 30, 1805

ID T-0041

Date 1805-12-30

Articles 1

Instrument Note

Parties

United States and the Piankeshaw Nation

Context

Executed December 30, 1805 at Vincennes. Another Harrison cession, the second Piankeshaw instrument in this volume following T-0032.

Significance

The Piankeshaw ceded their remaining claims in the Wabash valley. Three brief articles. The nation had been reduced by this point to a small population, and this instrument effectively completed the extinguishment of Piankeshaw territorial rights in Indiana Territory. Annuity supplement and goods as consideration.

Legal Observation

The Piankeshaw appear in this corpus as a series of progressively smaller cessions across successive instruments — each one extinguishing a further portion of their territorial base until nothing remained. The pattern is visible only by reading the instruments in sequence. Each individual instrument appeared as a voluntary transaction. The sequence reveals the trajectory.

TREATY WITH THE CREEKS. 1805. Black Fox, or Eunone, Broom, or Can, nar, we, so, ske, The Glass, or Tuu, qua, ti, hee, Bald Hunter, or Too, wa, yul, lan, Kutiyeskee, John McLemore, or Eu squal looka, Toochalar, Closenie, or Creeping, Turtle at Home, or Sullicoo, kie, walar, Double Head, or Chu, qua, cuttague, Dick Justice, Chickasaw-tihee, or Chickasaw tihee John Greenwood, or Eukosettas, killer. Chulevah, or Gentleman Tom, : Wrrnesszs: — (Signed, Robert Purdy, Secretary to the Commissioners. W. Yates, B. Com'g. icholas Byers, U. S. Factor. Wm. L. Lovely, Assistant Agent. B. McGhee. Saml Love. James Blair. Hopkins Lacy. Chs. Hicks, Interpreter, "To the Indian names are subjoined a mark and seal. Between the United States and the Creek Nation of Indians, con- cluded at the City of Washington, on the fourteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five. Arricurs of a Convention made between Henry Dearborn, secretary of war, being specially authorised therefor by the President of the United States, and Oche Haujo, William M'Intosh, Tuskenehau Chapce, Tuskenehau, Enehau Thlucco, Checopeheke, Emantlau, chiefs and head men of the Creek nation of Indians, duly authorised and em- powered by said nation. Arr. I. The aforesaid chiefs and head men do hereby agree, in con- sideration of certain sums of money and goods to be paid to the said Creek nation by the government of the United States as hereafter stipu- lated, to cede and forever quit claim, and do, in behalf of their nation, hereby cede, relinquish, and forever quit claim unto the United States all right, title, and interest, which the said nation have or claim, in or unto a certain tract of land, situate between the rivers Oconee and Oc- mulgee (except as hereinafter excepted) and bounded as follows, viz: Beginning at the high shoals of Apalacha, where the line of the treaty of fort Wilkinson touches the same, thence running in a straight line, to the mouth of Ulcofauhatche, it being the first large branch or fork of the Ocmulgee, above the Seven Islands: Provided, however, That if the said line should strike the Ulcofauhatche, at any place above its mouth, that it shall continue round with that stream so as to leave the whole of it on the Indian side; then the boundary to continue from the mouth of the Ulcofauhatche, by the water’s edge of the Ocmulgee river, down to its junction with the Oconee; thence up the Oconee to the present boundary at "Tauloohatche creek; thence up said creek and following the present boundary line to the first-mentioned bounds, at the high shoals of Apalacha, excepting and reserving to the Creek nation, the title and possession of a tract of land, five miles in length and three in breadth, and bounded as follows, viz: Beginning on the eastern shore of the Ocmulgee river, at a point three miles on a straight line above the mouth of a creek called Oakchoncoolgau, which empties into the Oemulgee, near the lower part of what is called the old Ocmulgee fields—thence running three miles eastwardly, on a course at right angles with the general course of the river for five miles below the point of beginning;—thence, from the end of the three miles, to run five

Source: U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. VII. Edited by Richard Peters, Esq. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1846. Reprinted by Dennis & Co., Inc., Buffalo, N.Y., 1962. Source lines 9702–9775.