Treaty with the Creeks. Mutual desire JOHN ADAMS, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, The parties being desirous of establishing permanent peace of establishing and friendship between the United States and the said Creek peace and friendship. nation, and the citizens and members thereof; and to remove the causes of war, by ascertaining their limits, and making other necessary, just, and friendly arrangements; the president of the United States, by Benjamin Hawkins, George Clymer, and Andrew Pickens, commissioners whom he hath constituted with powers for these purposes, by and with the advice and consent of the senate; and the Creek nation of Indians, by the undersigned kings, chiefs, and warriors, representing the whole Creek nation, have agreed to the following articles: * Art. 1. The treaty entered into at New York, between the The treaty of parties, on the 7th day of August, 1790, is, and shall remain New York binding; exobligatory on the contracting parties, according to the terms of cept, &c. it, except as herein provided for. to be clearly Art. 2. The boundary line from the Currahee mountain to A certain por the head or source of the main south branch of the Oconee tion of the river, called by the white people Appalatchee, and by the boundary line Indians Tulapocka, and down the middle of the same, shall ascertained. be clearly ascertained and marked, at such time, and in such See ante, No. manner, as the president shall direct. And the Indians will, this chapter. on being informed of the determination of the president, send as many of their old chiefs as he may require, to see the line ascertained and marked. 1, art. 4, of of Alatamaha. Art. 3. The president of the United States of America shall The president have full powers, whenever he may deem it adviseable, to es- may establish a trading or mitablish a trading or military post on the south side of the Alata- litary post, on maha, on the bluff, about one mile above Beard's Bluff; or any the south side where, from thence down the said river on the lands of the Indians, to garrison the same with any part of the military force of the United States, to protect the post, and to prevent the violation of any of the provisions or regulations subsisting between the parties: and the Indians do hereby annex to the post aforesaid, a tract of land of five miles square, bordering one ed to the post. side on the river; which post and the lands annexed thereto, are hereby ceded to, and shall be to the use, and under the government, of the United States of America. t Five miles square annex see the line rahee, be established Art. 4. As soon as the president of the United States has Creek comdetermined on the time and manner of running the line from missioners to the Currahee mountain, to the head or source of the main south completed branch of the Oconee, and notified the chiefs of the Creek from the Curland of the same, a suitable number of persons on their part shall attend to see the same completed: and if the president Military should deem it proper, then to fix on any place or places adjoin- posts, &c. to ing the river, and on the Indian lands, for military or trading by concurposts, the Creeks who attend there will concur in fixing the rence. same, according to the wishes of the president. And to each Five miles post the Indians shall annex a tract of land of five miles square, square to gach bordering one side on the river. And the said lands shall be to post. the use and under the government of the United States of America: provided always, that whenever any of the trading or mi- Proviso; as to litary posts mentioned in this treaty, shall, in the opinion of of lands for the president of the United States of America, be no longer ne- military postą, cessary for the purposes intended by this cession, the same shall revert to, and become a part of the Indian lands. the reversion Art. 5. Whenever the president of the United States of The Creeks America, and the king of Spain, may deem it adviseable to to be notified See ante, No. 1, of this chapter. See, in relation to the effect of this and following articles, a proviso and condition in the ratification of this treaty, immediately following it. Spanish terri and attend the mark the boundaries which separate their territories, the premarking the sident shall give notice thereof to the Creek chiefs, who will boundary line between the furnish two principal chiefs and twenty hunters to accompany American and the persons employed on this business, as hunters and guides, from the Choctaw country to the head of St. Mary's. The chiefs shall receive each half a dollar per day, and the hunters one quarter of a dollar each per day, and ammunition, and a reasonable value for the meat delivered by them for the use of the persons on this service. tories. The Creeks relinquish claims to territory ceded by the Choctaws and others. The Creeks soners, ne groes, &c. (9 Ante, No. 1, art. 3, of this chapter.) Art. 6. The treaties of Hopewell,t between the United States and the Choctaws and Chickasaws, and at Holston,‡ between the Cherokees and the United States, mark the boundaries of those tribes of Indians. And the Creek nation do hereby relinquish all claims to any part of the territory inhabited or claimed by the citizens of the United States, in conformity with the said treaties. Art. 7. The Creek nation shall deliver, as soon as practicato restore pri- ble, to the superintendent of Indian affairs, at such place as he may direct, all citizens of the United States, white inhabitants, and negroes, who are now prisoners in any part of the said nation, agreeable to the treaty at New York,§ and also all citizens, white inhabitants, negroes and property taken since the signing of that treaty. And if any such prisoners, negroes, or property, should not be delivered, on or before the first day of January next, the governor of Georgia may empower three persons to repair to the said nation, in order to claim and receive such prisoners, negroes, and property; under the direction of the president of the United States. Art. 8. In consideration of the friendly disposition of the Creek nation towards the government of the United States, evidenced by the stipulations in the present treaty, and particularly the leaving it in the discretion of the president to establish trading or military posts on their lands, the commisThe U.S. give sioners of the United States, on behalf of the said states, give to the said nation goods to the value of six thousand dollars, and stipulate to send to the Indian nation, two blacksmiths, with $6,000, &c. strikers, to be employed for the upper and lower Creeks, with the necessary tools. to the Creeks goods to the value of Animosities to cease. Art. 9. All animosities for past grievances shall henceforth cease, and the contracting parties will carry the foregoing treaProviso; exty into full execution with all good faith and sincerity: provid cluding per- ed nevertheless, that persons now under arrest, in the state of Georgia, for a violation of the treaty at New York, are not to be included in this amnesty, but are to abide the decision of law. sons under arrest. *These boundaries were designated under the treaty of San Lorenzo e Real, of the 27th of October, 1795. See 1 vol. Laws U. S. page 264. See ante, chap. 5, No. 1, art. 3; and chap. 6, No. 1, art. 3. Sce ante, chap. 4, No. 2, art. 4. take effect as soon as ratifi Art. 10. This treaty shall take effect and be obligatory on This treaty to the contracting parties, as soon as the same shall have been ratified by the president of the United States, by and with the ed advice and consent of the senate. Done at Colerain, the 29th of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six. |