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Articles concluded
at Fort Stanwix, or the twenty-second day of October, one thousand
seven hundred and eighty-four, between Oliver Wolcott, Richard
Butler, and Arthur Lee, Commissioners Plenipotentiary from the United
States, in Congress assembled, on the one Part, and the Sachems and
Warriors of the Six Nations, on the other.
The United States
of America give peace to the Senecas, Mohawks, Onondagas and Cayugas,
and receive them into their protection upon the following conditions:
ARTICLE I.
Six hostages shall
be immediately delivered to the commissioners by the said nations, to
remain in possession of the United States, till ail the prisoners,
white and black, which were taken by the said Senecas, Mohawks,
Onondagas and Cayugas, or by any of them, in the late war, from among
the people of the United States, shall be delivered up.
ARTICLE II.
The Oneida and
Tuscarora nations shall be secured in the possession of the lands on
which they are settled.
ARTICLE III.
A line shall be
drawn, beginning at the mouth of a creek about four miles east of
Niagara, called Oyonwavea, or Johnston's Landing-Place, upon the lake
named by the Indians Oswego, and by us Ontario; from thence southerly
in a direction always four miles east of the carrying-path, between
Lake Erie and Ontario, to the mouth of Tehoseroron or Buffaloe Creek
on Lake Erie; thence south to the north boundary of the state of
Pennsylvania; thence west to the end of the said north boundary;
thence south along the west boundary of the said state, to the river
Ohio; the said line from the mouth of the Oyonwayea to the Ohio,
shall be the western boundary of the lands of the Six Nations, so
that the Six Nations shall and do yield to the United States, all
claims to the country west of the said boundary, and then they shall
be secured in the peaceful possession of the lands they inhabit east
and north of the same, reserving only six miles square round the fort
of Oswego, to the United States, for the support of the same.
ARTICLE IV.
The Commissioners
of the United States, in consideration of the present circumstances
of the Six Nations, and in execution of the humane and liberal views
of the United States upon the signing of the above articles, will
order goods to be delivered to the said Six Nations for their use and comfort. |
