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W. G. and G. W. Ewing, three thousand dollars.
George F. Turner, two hundred dollars.

Peter Longlois, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Thomas Robb, eight hundred and forty dollars.

The estate of George Cicott, deceased, fifteen hundred dollars.
George C. Spencer, one hundred and fifty-seven dollars.

John T. Douglass, one hundred dollars.

W. G. and G. W. Ewing, seven hundred and sixteen dollars.
H. B. M'Keen, six hundred dollars.

Joseph Bertrand, senior, fifteen hundred dollars.
George C. Spencer, three hundred dollars.

Jesse Buzann, three hundred and sixteen dollars.
Joseph Douglass, four hundred and fifty dollars.
John Smith, four hundred and eighty dollars.
Moses Barnett, eight hundred and forty-five dollars.
Harison Barnett, two hundred and sixty seven dollars.

Lot Bozarth, ninety dollars.

Silas Alchison, two hundred and forty-four dollars.

Harison Barnett & Co. one hundred and seventy-eight dollars.

James Elliott, one hundred and nineteen dollars.

Alexander Smith, one hundred dollars.

Walker, Carter & Co. four hundred and four dollars.

John Forsyth, amr. &c. of Thomas Forsyth, four hundred and seventythree dollars.

John Forsyth, six hundred dollars.

ARTICLES OF A TREATY

Made and entered into at Castor Hill, in the county of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, this twenty-sixth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, between William Clark, Frank J. Allen and Nathan Kouns, Commissioners on the part of the United States, of the one part, and the Chiefs, Warriors and Counsellors of the Shawnoes and Delawares, late of Cape Girardeau, in behalf of their respective bands, of the other part.

WHEREAS parts of the Shawanoe and Delaware nations of Indians, did settle on lands near the town of Cape Girardeau, under a permission from the Spanish Government given to said Shawanoes and Delawares by the Baron de Carondelet, dated the fourth day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety three, on which lands the Delawares resided until the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, at which period, from various causes, it became necessary for them to remove, leaving their fields and improvements: And whereas, lands have been assigned to the said Tribes by Treaties, viz: with the Shawanoes of the seventh November one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, and with the Delawares of the twenty-fourth September one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, in which last named Treaty no compensation was made to the Delawares late of Cape Girardeau, for their improvements or for their loss of stock, &c. and it being the desire of the United States to indemnify the said Delawares for all losses and injuries by them sustained in consequence of such removal, the following articles have been agreed upon by the contracting parties.

Oct. 26, 1832.

Proclamation,

Feb. 12, 1833."

Preamble.

Ante, p. 284.
Ante, p. 327.

Cession of land to U.S.

Stipulations on the part of the U. S.

Payment to Delawares.

Payment of claims against Delawares.

Payments to Shawnees.

When to take effect.

ARTICLE I. The Delawares and Shawanoes late of Cape Girardeau, hereby cede and relinquish to the United States all their lands within the State of Missouri, and also all claims which they may have against the United States for loss of property and for improvements which they have made up to the present time.

ARTICLE II. In consideration of the foregoing cession and relinquishment, the United States agree to the following stipulations: There shall be paid and delivered to said Delawares as soon as possible after the ratification of this Treaty, horned cattle, hogs, and other stock, to the amount of two thousand dollars.

For assistance in breaking up ground, and enclosing the same, one thousand dollars.

For pay of a person to attend their mill for five years, and for repairs of the same during the said period, two thousand five hundred dollars. For support of a school for three years, one thousand five hundred dollars.

ARTICLE III. There shall be paid to the said Delawares on their lands, in merchandize suited to their wants, at the St. Louis cost prices, after the ratification of this treaty, the sum of five thousand dollars. There shall also be paid them the further sum of twelve thousand dollars, to be placed, at the request of said Indians, in the hands of the Superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis, to be by him applied to the payment of debts which the said Delawares have acknowledged to be due by their nation agreeably to a schedule presented in Council, and which sum they wish paid to Menard & Vallé of St. Genevieve, for the benefit of William Gillis and William Marshall.-The sum of one thousand dollars is also paid them in merchandize and cash, the receipt of which latter sum (of one thousand dollars) is hereby acknowledged.

ARTICLE IV. To enable the Shawanoes who are parties to this Treaty, to remove immediately all the bands of their Tribe who are settled in the Territory of Arkansas, to the lands assigned their nation on the Kanzas river, the United States will pay them on the signing of this treaty, eight hundred dollars in cash, and four hundred dollars in clothing and horses, the receipt of which sums, amounting to twelve hundred dollars, is hereby acknowledged. And when they shall have removed to their lands, the further sum of five hundred dollars shall be paid them towards the expenses of said removal. The United States will moreover furnish the said Shawanoes with provisions on their land for one year after their removal, which, together with the preceding stipulations, will be considered in full of all their claims and demands against the United States, of whatever nature.

ARTICLE V. This treaty to be obligatory on the contracting parties when ratified by the President and Senate of the United States.

In testimony whereof, the Commissioners aforesaid, and the undersigned Chiefs, Warriors and Counsellors aforesaid, have hereunto subscribed their names and affixed their seals, at Castor Hill in the county of St. Louis aforesaid, the date first above written.

Meh-shay-quo-wha,
Nah-ko-min,

Ta-whe-la-len, Capt. Ketchum,
Nonon-da-gomon,

WM. CLARK,

FRANK J. ALLEN,
NATHAN KOUNS.

Shawanees.
Wah-wai-lainne,

La-lah-ow-che-ka,

Ki-ah-quaw,

Pee-tah-lah-wah, Shot Pouchc.

In presence of Jas. Kennerly, Sec'y. Meriwether Lewis Clark, Lieut. 6th Inf. Geo: Maguire, Ind'n. Dept. Sam: L. McKenny. Pierre Menard. Alex'r. Charles. Pem-sau-taw, Capt. Perry. A. Shane, U. S. Interp. Jacques Mette, U. S. Interp'r. Geo. Catlin. Pierre Cadue, Interp'r. for Kickapoos and Pottawattamies.

To the Indian names are subjoined marks.

Castor Hill, St. Louis County, Mo.
October 31st, 1832.

By an understanding had between the undersigned Commissioners on the part of the United States, and certain Chiefs of the Delaware Nation hereinafter named, and which was agreed to after the signing of the Treaty with said Tribe, it was stipulated by the said Chiefs and agreed to by the Commissioners, that an annuity for life to Meshe Kowhay, or Patterson, first Chief of the Delawares, Tah-whee-lalen, or Ketchum, Captain of a band; and Natcoming, also Captain of a band, should be paid to each of them by the United States, of one hundred dollars.

In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands at Castor Hill, the date aforesaid.

WM. CLARK,
NATHAN KOUNS,
FRANK J. ALLEŃ.

Annuities.

ARTICLES OF A TREATY,

Made and concluded on the Tippecanoe River, in the State of Indiana, on the twenty-seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty-two, between Jonathan Jennings, John W. Davis and Marks Crume, Commissioners on the part of the United States, and the Chiefs and Warriors of the Potowatomies, of the State of Indiana and Michigan Territory.

ARTICLE I. The Chiefs and Warriors aforesaid cede to the United States, their title and interest to lands in the States of Indiana and Illinois, and in the Territory of Michigan, south of Grand river.

ARTICLE II. From the cession aforesaid, the following reservations are made, (to wit:) The reservation at Po-ca-gan's village for his band, and a reservation for such of the Potowatomies as are resident at the village of Notta-we-sipa, agreeably to the treaties of the nineteenth of September, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, and twentyeth of September, 1828.

For the band of Kin-Kash, four sections:

For O-ca-chee, one section:

For the band Mes-qua-buck, four sections, to include his village:
For the band of Che-kase, four sections, to include his village:
For the band of Che-Chaw-kose ten sections, to include his village:
For the Potowatomies, two sections, to include their mills on Tippe-
canoe river.

For the band of To-i-sas brother Me-mot-way, and Che-quam-ka-ko, ten sections to include their village:

For the band of Ma-sac, four sections:

For the band of Ash-kum and Wee-si-o-nas, sixteen sections, to include their village :

Oct. 27, 1832.

Proclamation,

Jan. 21, 1833.

Cession of land to U. S.

Reservations.

Ante, p. 305.
Ante, p. 317.

For the band of Wee-sau, five sections of land, including one section, granted to him by the Treaty of eighteen hundred and twentyeight, and to include his present residence:

For the bands of Mo-ta and Men-o-quet, four sections, each, to include their villages:

For Be-si-ah, four sections.

ARTICLE III. The United States agree to grant to each of the following persons, the quantity of land annexed to their names, which lands shall be conveyed to them by patent:

For Mon-i-taw-quah, daughter of Swa-gaw, one section, to include Wi-me-gos village:

For Wee-saw, three sections:

For Po-quia, the sister of Jose, one section:

For Ben-ack, eight sections:

For Ursule Du-quin-dre, one section :

For Ge-neir, one section:

To To-pen-ne-bee, principal chief, one section:

To Poch-a-gan, second Chief, one section:

To Pet-chi-co, two sections:

To Sau-gana, one section:

To Louis Barnett, one section:

To Mam-qua, daughter of Sau-ga-na, one section:

To Mish-a-wa, adopted daughter of Pit-e-chew, one section:
To Kesis Shadana, one section:

To Louis Chadana, one half section:

To Charles Chadana, one half section:
To John B. Chadana, one section :
To Pier Navarre's wife, one section:

To John B. Ducharm, one section:

To Mie-saw-bee, one quarter section:

To Baptiste L. Clare, one half section:

To Mary Lacomb's children, one half section:

To Joseph Bertrand's, jr. children, one half section jointly:

To Francis Page, jr. one half section:

To Alexander Rollane, a half blood, one half section:

To Re-re-mo-sau, (alias) Panish, one section and one half section, on the McCou, on the river Raison, in the Michigan Territory, which was reserved to his use at St. Joseph's treaty, of eighteen hundred and twenty-eight:

To Mary Nedeau, one quarter section:

To Saw-grets, son of Pier Moran, one half section :

To Isadore Mo-mence and Wa-be-ga, sons of Pier Morans, one quar ter section each:

To Poch-a-gan's wife, one section:

To Pet-qua and Kee-see, sons of Ma-kee-sa-be, one half section:
To Pe-nem-chis, one half section:

To Neu-a-tau-naut, one half section :

To Francis de Jean, one section:

To Mary Ann Ben-ack, wife of Edward McCartney, three sections of land, to be located on the south side of the Turkey creek prairie:

For Francis Besion, one half section:

For Miss-no-qui, a chieftess, four sections:
For Luther Rice, one quarter section:
For Med-lin Aucharm, one quarter section:
For Sheaupo Truckey, one section:
For Ju-be Actrois, one section:
For Ash-kum, two sections:

For Pee-pees-kah one section:

For Po-ka-kause, one half section:

For Nas-wau-kee, one section :

For Man-me-nass, one half section:
For Paul Longlois, one half section :
For Peter Longlois, junr., one half section:
For Shaw-bo-wah-tuck, one quarter section:
For Betsey Rousau, one quarter section:
For John Davis, one half section:
For Nancy Cicott, one quarter section:

For Amelia Cicott, one quarter section:

For Lazette Allen, one quarter section:

For Polly Griffith, daughter of Ne-bosh, two sections:
For Chop-y-tuck, or John Payne, one section:
For Joe Borisau, one quarter section:

For Quash-mau, one quarter section:

For Mas-co, one quarter section:

For Mis-sink-qu-quah, six sections:

For Aub-e-naub-bee, ten sections:

For Nee-kaw Dizzardee, one quarter section:
For Mog-see, one half section:

To Kaubee, one half section:

To old Ann Mac-i-to, one half section:

To old Wee-saw, one half section:

To Pe-te-no-on, one half section:

To Tou-se-qua, the wife of Joe Baily, one section:

To Au-taw-co-num, daughter of the Crane, one section:

To Sen-niss-quah and her daughter Nancy, two sections:
To James Burnett, one section:

To To-gah, a Potawatomie woman, one quarter section:

To Mary Ann Bruner, one quarter section.

The foregoing reservations shall be selected, under the direction of the President of the United States, after the lands shall have been surveyed, and the boundaries to correspond with the public surveys.

Annuities and

ARTICLE IV. In consideration of the aforesaid cession, the United States will pay fifteen thousand dollars annually for twelve years; Thirty- payments. two thousand dollars, in goods, will be paid as soon after the signing of these articles, as they can be procured, and ten thousand dollars, in goods, will be paid next spring, at Notta-wa-si-pa, and to be paid to that band, and pay their just debts, agreeably to a schedule hereunto annexed, amounting to twenty thousand seven hundred and twenty-one dollars.

Tract to be

The section of land granted by the treaty of St. Joseph to To-pe-naukoung, wife of Peter Longlois, shall be purchased by the United States, bought by U.S. if the same can be done for the sum of eight hundred dollars.

The United States agree to appropriate, for the purposes of educating Education. Indian youths, the annual sum of two thousand dollars, as long as the Congress of the United States may think proper, to be expended as the President may direct.

Treaty, when

This treaty shall take effect and be obligatory on the contracting parties, as soon as the same shall have been ratified, by the President of to take effect. the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.

In testimony whereof, the said Jonathan Jennings, John W. Davis, and Marks Crume, commissioners as aforesaid, and the chiefs, head men, and warriors of the Potowatomies, have hereunto set their

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