Articles
of a treaty made and concluded at Camp Tippecanoe,
in the State of Indiana, this twentieth day of
October, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-two, between Jonathan
Jennings, John W. Davis and Marks Crume, Commissioners
on the part of the United States of the one part,
and the Chiefs and Headmen of the Potawatamie
Tribe of Indians of the Prairie and Kankakee,
of the other part.
ARTICLE I.
The said Potawatamie Tribe of
Indians cede to the United States the tract of
land included within the following boundary, viz:
Beginning at a point on Lake Michigan ten miles
southward of the mouth of Chicago river; thence,
in a direct line, to a point on the Kankakee river,
ten miles above its mouth; thence, with said river
and the Illinois river, to the mouth of Fox river,
being the boundary of a cession made by them in
1816; thence, with the southern boundary of the
Indian Territory, to the State line between Illinois
and Indiana; thence, north with said line, to
Lake Michigan; thence, with the shore of Lake
Michigan, to the place of beginning.
ARTICLE II.
From the cession aforesaid the
following tracts shall be reserved, to wit:
Five sections for Shaw-waw-nas-see, to include
Little Rock village.
For Min-e-maung, one section, to include his village.
For Joseph Laughton, son of Wais-ke-shaw, one
section, and for Ce-na-ge-wine, one section, both
to be located at Twelve Mile Grove, or Na-be-na-qui-nong.
For Claude Laframboise, one section, on Thorn
creek.
For Maw-te-no, daughter of Francois Burbonnois,
jun. one section, at Soldier’s village.
For Catish, wife of Francis Burbonnois, sen. one
section, at Soldier’s village.
For the children of Wais-ke-shaw, two sections,
to include the small grove of timber on the river
above Rock village.
For Jean B. Chevallier, one section, near Rock
village; and for his two sisters, Angelique and
Josette, one half section each, joining his.
For Me-she-ke-ten-o, two sections, to include
his village.
For Francis Le Via, one section, joining Me-she-ke-ten-o.
For the five daughters of Mo-nee, by her last
husband, Joseph Bailey, two sections.
For Me-saw-ke-qua and her children, two section,
at Wais-us-kucks’s village.
For Sho-bon-ier, two sections, at his village.
For Josette Beaubien and her children, two sections,
to be located on Hickory creek.
For Therese, wife of Joseph Laframboise, one section:
and for Archange Pettier, one section, both at
Skunk Grove.
For Mau-i-to-qua and son, one half section each;
for the children of Joseph Laframboise, one section,
at Skunk Grove.
For Washington Burbonnois, one section, joining
his mother’s reservation (Calish Burbonnois).
For Ah-be-te-kezhic, one section, below the State
line on the Kankakee river.
For Nancy, Sally, and Betsey Countreman, children
of En-do-ga, one section, joining the reserves
near Rock village.
For Jacque Jonveau, one section, near the reservation
of Me-she-ke-ten-o.
For Wah-pon-seh and Qua-qui-to, five sections
each, in the Prairie near Rock village.
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The persons to whom the foregoing
reservations are made, are all Indians and of
Indian descent.
ARTICLE III.
In consideration of the cession
in the first article, the United States agree
to pay to the aforesaid Potawatamie Indians, an
annuity of fifteen thousand dollars for the term
of twenty years. Six hundred dollars shall be
paid annually to Billy Caldwell, two hundred dollars
to Alexander Robinson, and two hundred dollars
to Pierre Le Clerc, during their natural lives.
ARTICLE IV.
The sum of twenty-eight thousand
seven hundred and forty-six dollars, shall be
applied to the payment of certain claims against
the Indians, agreeably to a schedule of the said
claims, hereunto annexed.
The United States further agree
to deliver to the said Indians, forty-five thousand
dollars in merchandise immediately after signing
this treaty; and also the further sum of thirty
thousand dollars in merchandize is hereby stipulated
to be paid to them at Chicago in the year 1833.
There shall be paid by the United
States, the sum of one thousand four hundred dollars
to the following named Indians, for horses stolen
from them during the late war, as follows, to
wit:
To Pe-quo-no, for two horses, eighty dollars.
To Pa-ca-cha-be, for two ditto, eighty dollars.
To Shaw-wa-nas-see, for one ditto, forty dollars.
To Francis Sho-bon-nier, for three ditto, one
hundred and twenty dollars.
To Sho-bon-ier, or Cheval-ier, for one ditto,
forty dollars.
To Naw-o-kee, for one ditto, forty dollars.
To Me-she-ke-ten-o, for one ditto, forty dollars.
To Aun-take, for two horses, eighty dollars.
To Che-chalk-ose, for one ditto, forty dollars.
To Naa-a-gue, for two ditto, eighty dollars.
To Pe-she-ka-of-le-beouf, one ditto, forty dollars.
To Naw-ca-a-sho, for four ditto, one hundred and
sixty dollars.
To Nox-sey, for one ditto, forty dollars.
To Ma-che-we-tah, for three ditto, one hundred
and twenty dollars.
To Masco, for one ditto, forty dollars.
To Wah-pou-seh, for one horse, forty dollars.
To Waub-e-sai, for three ditto, one hundred and
twenty dollars.
To Chi-cag, for one ditto, forty dollars.
To Mo-swah-en-wah, one ditto, forty dollars.
To She-bon-e-go, one ditto, forty dollars.
To Saw-saw-wais-kuk, for two ditto, eighty dollars.
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The said tribe having been the faithful allies
of the United States during the late conflict
with the Sacs and Foxes, in consideration thereof,
the United States agree to permit them to hunt
and fish on the lands ceded, as also on the lands
of the Government on Wabash and Sangamon rivers,
so long as the same shall remain the property
of the United States.
In testimony whereof, the commissioners,
and the chiefs, head men, and warriors of the
said tribe, have hereunto set their hands, at
the place and on the day aforesaid.
Jonathan Jennings,
John W. Davis,
Marks Crume,
Ah-be-te-ke-zhic, his x mark,
Shaw-wa-nas-see, his x mark,
Wah-pon-seh, his x mark,
Caw-we-saut, his x mark,
Shab-e-neai, his x mark,
Chi-cag, his x mark,
Te-ca-cau-co, his x mark,
Chah-wee, his x mark,
Mas-co, his x mark,
Sho-min, his x mark,
Car-bon-ca, his x mark,
O-gouse, his x mark,
Ash-ke-wee, his x mark,
Ka-qui-tah, his x mark,
She-mar-gar, his x mark,
Nar-ga-to-nuc, his x mark,
Puc-won, his x mark,
Ne-be-gous, his x mark,
E-to-wan-a-cote, his x mark,
Quis-e-wen, his x mark,
Wi-saw, his x mark,
Pierish, his x mark,
Cho-van-in, his x mark,
Wash-is-kuck, his x mark,
Ma-sha-wah, his x mark,
Capt. Heeld, his x mark,
Man-itoo, his x mark,
Ke-me-gu-bee, his x mark,
Pe-shuc-kee, his x mark,
Pat-e-go-shuc, his x mark,
Aun-take, his x mark,
Me-she-ke-ten-o, his x mark,
Shay-tee, his x mark,
Ce-na-je-wine, his x mark,
Ne-swa-bay-o-sity, his x mark,
Ke-wah-ca-to, his x mark,
Wai-saw-o-ke-ah, his x mark,
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No-nee, his x mark,
No-che-ke-se-qua-bee, his x mark,
She-bon-e-go, his x mark,
Mix-e-maung, his x mark,
Mah-che-wish-a-wa, his x mark,
Mac-a-ta-be-na, his x mark,
Ma-che-we-tah, his x mark,
Me-gis, his x mark,
Mo-swa-en-wah, his x mark,
Ka-che-na-bee, his x mark,
Wah-be-no-say, his x mark,
Mash-ca-shuc, his x mark,
A-bee-shah, his x mark,
Me-chi-ke-kar-ba, his x mark,
Nor-or-ka-kee, his x mark,
Pe-na-o-cart, his x mark,
Quar-cha-mar, his x mark,
Francois Cho-van-ier, his x mark,
Ge-toc-quar, his x mark,
Me-gwun, his x mark,
Ma-sha-ware, his x mark,
Che-co, his x mark,
So-wat-so, his x mark,
Wah-be-min, his x mark.
Signed in the presence of—
John Tipton,
Th. Jo. Owen, United States Indian agent,
J. B. Beaubien,
B. H. Laughton, interpreter,
G. S. Hubbard, interpreter,
William Conner, interpreter,
Thomas Hartzell,
Meadore B. Beaubien,
James Conner,
Henry B. Hoffman.
After the signing of this treaty,
and at the request of the Indians, three thousand
dollars was applied to the purchasing of horses;
which were purchased and delivered to the Indians
by our direction, leaving the balance to be paid
in merchandise at this time, forty-two thousand
dollars.
Jonathan Jennings,
J. W. Davis,
Marks Crume,
Commissioners.
It is agreed, on the part of the
United States, that the following claims shall
be allowed, agreeably to the fourth article of
the foregoing treaty, viz:
To Gurdon S. Hubbard, five thousand five hundred
and seventy three dollars.
Samuel Miller, seven hundred and ninety dollars.
John Bt. Bobea, three thousand dollars.
Robert A. Kinzie, four hundred dollars.
Jacque Jombeaux, one hundred and fifty dollars.
Jacque Jombeaux, senior, fifteen hundred dollars.
Medad B. Bobeaux, five hundred and fifty dollars.
Noel Vasier, eighteen hundred dollars.
Joseph Balies, twelve hundred and fifty dollars.
Joseph Shawnier, one hundred and fifty dollars.
Thomas Hartzell, three thousand dollars.
Bernardus H. Lawton, three thousand five hundred
dollars.
George Walker, seven hundred dollars.
Stephen J. Scott, one hundred dollars.
Cole Weeks, thirty eight dollars.
Timothy B. Clark, one hundred dollars.
George Pettijohn, fifty dollars.
Thomas Forsyth, five hundred dollars.
Antoine Le Clerc, fifty-five dollars.
James B. Campbell, fifty-three dollars.
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