Place: Treaty Cession

• Place ID: 319

  Title: Royce Area 26
• Parent Place ID: 1

  Source: Stat. L, VII, 49

  Acreage: 1776256.2194
• Treaty Citation: Stat. L, VII, 49

  Royce Number: 26

  Royce Map Title: Indiana, Illinois 1
• Transcription:

  The post of St. Vincennes on the river Wabash, and the lands adjacent, of which the Indian title has been extinguished. Clairifed in Stat. L, VII, 74, 1803 Treaty: it is hereby agreed, that the boundaries of the said tract shall be as follows: Beginning at Point Coupee on the Wabash, and running thence by a line north seventy-eight degrees, west twelve miles, thence by a line parallel to the general course of the Wabash, until it shall be intersected by a line at right angles to the same, passing through the mouth of White river, thence by the last mentioned line across the Wabash and towards the Ohio, seventy-two miles, thence by a line north twelve degrees west, until it shall be intersected by a line at right angles to the same, passing through Point Coupee, and by the last mentioned line to the place of beginning.