Treaty with The Chickasaw
July 23rd, 1805
Articles of arrangement made and concluded in the Chickasaw
country, between James Robertson and Silas Dinsmoor, commissioners
of the United States of the one part, and the Mingo chiefs
and warriors of the Chickasaw nation of Indians on the other
part.
Article 1.
Whereas the Chickasaw nation of Indians have been for some
time embarrassed by heavy debts due to their merchants and
traders, and being destitute of funds to effect important
improvements in their country, they have agreed and do hereby
agree to cede to the United States, and forever quit claim
to the tract of country included within the following bounds,
to wit: beginning on the left bank of Ohio, at the point where
the present Indian boundary adjoins the same, thence down
the left bank of Ohio to the Tennessee river, thence up the
main channel of the Tennessee river to the mouth of Duck river;
thence up the left bank of Duck river to the Columbian highway
or road leading from Nashville to Natchez, thence along the
said road to the ridge dividing the waters running into Duck
river from those running into Buffaloe river, thence easterly
along the said ridge to the great ridge dividing the waters
running into the main Tennessee river from those running into
Buffaloe river near the main source of Buffaloe river, thence
in a direct line to the Great Tennessee river near the Chickasaw
old fields or eastern point of the Chickasaw claim on that
river; thence northwardly to the great ridge dividing the
waters running into the Tennessee from those running into
Cumberland river, so as to include all the waters running
into Elk river, thence along the top of the said great ridge
to the place of beginning: reserving a tract of one mile square
adjoining to, and below the mouth of Duck river on the Tennessee,
for the use of the chief O'Koy or Tishumastubbee.
Article 2.
The United States on their part, and in consideration of
the above cession, agree to make the following payments, to
wit: Twenty thousand dollars for the use of the nation at
large, and for the payment of the debts due to their merchants
and traders; and to George Colbert and O'Koy two thousand
dollars, that is, to each one thousand dollars. This sum is
granted to them at the request of the national council for
services rendered their nation, and is to be subject to their
individual order, witnessed by the resident agent; also to
Chinubbee Mingo, the king of the nation, an annuity of one
hundred dollars, during his natural life, granted as a testimony
of his personal worth and friendly disposition. All the above
payments are to be made in specie.
Article 3.
In order to preclude for ever all disputes relative to the
boundary mentioned in the first section, it is hereby stipulated,
that the same shall be ascertained and marked by a commissioner
or commissioners on the part of the United States, accompanied
by such person as the Chickasaws may choose, so soon as the
Chickasaws shall have thirty days' notice of the time and
place, at which the operation is to commence: and the United
States will pay the person appointed on the part of the Chickasaws
two dollars per day during his actual attendance on that service.
Article 4.
It is hereby agreed on the part of the United States, that
from and after the ratification of these articles, no settlement
shall be made by any citizen, or permitted by the government
of the United States, on that part of the present cession
included between the present Indian boundary and the Tennessee,
and between the Ohio and a line drawn due north from the mouth
of Buffaloe to the ridge dividing the waters of Cumberland
from those of the Tennessee river, to the term of three years.
Article 5.
The articles now stipulated will be considered as permanent
additions to the treaties now in force between the contracting
parties, as soon as they shall have been ratified by the President
of the United States of America, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate of the said United States.
In witness of all and every thing herein determined, the
parties have hereunto interchangeably set their hands and
seals, in the Chickasaw country, this twenty-third day of
July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
five, and of the independence of the United States of America
the thirtieth.
Commissioners:
- James Robertson
- Silas Dinsmoor,
Chiefs and warriors:
- Chenubbee Mingo, the king, his x mark,
- George Colbert, his x mark,
- O Koy, his x mark,
- Tiphu Mashtubbee, his x mark,
- Choomubbee, his x mark,
- Mingo Mattaha, his x mark,
- E. Mattaha Meko, his x mark,
- Wm. McGillivry, his x mark,
- Tisshoo Hooluhta, his x mark,
- Levi Colbert, his x mark,
Signed, sealed, and interchanged, in presence of
- Thomas Augustine Claiborne, secretary to the commissioners,
- W.P. Anderson, of Tennessee.
- Malcolm McGee, his x mark,
- Samuel Mitchell, United States agent to the Chickasaw nation
- John Pitchlynn,
- Christopher Olney,
- John McKee,
- Wm. Tyrrell,
- R. Chamberlin, second lieutenant Second Regiment Infantry, Sworn interpreters.
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