The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-01-27

By an act of the Parliament of Great
Britain, passed in 1774, the whole of the
Northwestern Territory was annexed
to and made part of the Province of
Quebec, as created and established by
the Royal Proclamation of the 9TH of
October, 1868. The claim of English
monarch to Northwestern Territory was
finally eeded to the United States by the
treaty of peace signed at Paris, Septem-
ber 8, 1888, the provisional articles which
formed the basis of that treaty, more es-
pecially as related to the boundary, hav-
ing been signed at Paris November 80,
1882.
Numerous Indian tribes, by virtue of
prior possession, then asserted their re-
spective claims, which also had to be ex-
tinguished. A treaty for this purpose
was accordingly made at Fort Stanwix,
October %, 1884, with the saChems and
warriors of the Mohawks, 0nondagas,
Senecas, Cayugas, Oneidas, and Tusca-
rawas, by the third article of which
treaty the said Six Nations ceded to the
United States all claims to the country
west of a line extending along the west
ern boundary of Pennsylvania, from the
Oyounayea to the river Ohio. The com
missioners on the part of the United
States were Oliver Wolcott, Richard But
ler, and Arthur Lee. This important
treaty contains only four articles. 1t was
signed in the presence of witnesses by
the commissioners above named and
representatives of the Six Nations.
A treaty had previously been made at
Fort Pitt, September II, 1778, between
the United States and the Delaware Ind
ians, the articles of agreement and con-
federation, six in number, having been
made and entered into by Andrew and
Thomas Lewis, commissioners for and on
behalf of the United States of the one
part, and Capt. Whiteyes, Capt. John
Killbuck, and Capt. Pipe, deputies and
chief men of the Delaware Nation of the
other part. In the six articles which
this treaty comprised it was provided
that all past offences committed by either
of the contracting parties should be mu-
tually forgiven. Peace and friendship
were to be perpetual. In case Of war,
each party was to assist the other. The
United States were to have free passage
to the forts and towns of their, enemies,
etc. The Delaware Nation was, on GER
tain conditions, to have representation
in Congress.
A treaty was concluded at Fort Min
tosh, where the town of Beaver now
stands, January 2l, 1884, between the
commissioners pleniopotentiary of the
United States Of the one part and the
sachems and warriors of the Wyandot
Delaware, Chippewa, and Ottawa nations
of the other part. This treaty contains
ten articles, besides, separate one max
ing provisions for Delaware chiefs who
took up the hatchet for the United States
and also provisions for their families. Ac-
cording to this treaty, three chiefs were
to be given to the commissioners as hos.
tages, by the Wyandot and Delaware ma.
tions, to be retained till all prisoners tax.
en- by said nations were restored the
Indians acknowledged themselves to be
under the protection of the United States
the boundaries were prescribed and
reserves made; no citizen of the United
States was to settle on Indian lands the
Indians recognized the title ofthe United
States to the lands east, south and west
of the boundary line described; the posts
at Detroit and Michilimahinac were re.
served Indian robbers and murderers
committing offenses upon citizens of the
United States were to be delivered Gc
the United States for punishment; and
the commissioners directed goods to be
delivered among the different tribes.