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Place: Reserve

  • Place ID: R1400001
    Title: Great Reserve partial cession, Royce Area 198
  • Parent Place ID: R140
    Source: Stat. L, VII, 463
    Acreage: 154111.5600
  • State: Indiana
    County: N/A
  • Royce Number: 198
    Royce Map Title: Indiana
  • Transcription:
    1834 Treaty. "The Miamies also agree to cede a portion of their big reserve, made at the treaty of St. Mary's of 1818, situated southeast of the Wabash, extending along the Wabash river, from the mouth of Salamany river, to the mouth of Eel river. The part now ceded shall be embraced within the following bounds to wit: commencing on the Wabash river, opposite the mouth of Eel river, running up said Wabash river eight miles, thence south two miles, thence westerly one mile, thence south to the southern boundary of said reserve, thence along said boundary line seven miles to the southwest corner, thence northerly with the western boundary line to the place of beginning."


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Notes:
  • Miamis cede the western portion of the Great Reserve.


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Treaty

1834 Treaty at the Forks of the Wabash

October 23, 1834

TREATY WITH THE MIAMI, 1834. Oct. 23, 1834. | 7 Stat., 458. | 7 Stat., 463. | Proclamation, Dec. 22, 1837. Articles of a treaty between the United States and the Miami tribe of Indians, concluded at the Forks of the Wabash, in the State of Indiana, on the 23d day of October, 1834, by and between William Marshall, commissioner of the United States, and the chiefs and warriors of said tribe. ARTICLE 1. The Miami tribe of Indians agree to cede to the United States the following described t...


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