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1831-08-08, Articles of Agreement and Convention, Made and Concluded at Wapaghkonnetta
Articles of Agreement and Convention between the United States and the Shawnee Indians residing at Wapaghkonnetta and Hog Creek within the
territorial limits of the organized county of Allen in the State of Ohio, August 8, 1831, 7 Stat. 355-358. ( Articles of Agreement and Convention between the
United States and the Shawnee Indians residing at Wapaghkonnetta and Hog Creek within the territorial limits of the organized county of Allen in the
State of Ohio. The land ceded by the Shawnee Indians is described in detail in Article I. As compensation the Indians received a grant of land west of
the Mississippi River either contiguous to the Shawnees of Missouri or another district designated for the emigration of Indians. The Indians were
advanced $13,000 to enable them to erect houses and farms on the new land. The agreement was concluded at Wapaghkonnetta in Allen county in the State of
Ohio on August 8, 1831.)
Title:   Articles of agreement and convention, made and concluded at Wapaghkonnetta, in the county of Allen and State of Ohio on the 8th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one / by and between James B. Gardiner specially appointed commissioner on the part of the United States and John McElvain, Indian agent for the Wyandots, Senecas amd Shawnees residing in the state of Ohio, on the one part, and the undersigned, principal chiefs, headmen and warriors of the tribe of Shawnee Indians residing at Wapaghkonnetta and Hog Creek, within the territorial limits of the organized county of Allen, in the State of Ohio.
OCLC Number:   1013185045
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