Treaty betwe[e]n the United States of America and the sachems, chiefs and warriors of the Wyandot, Ottawa, Chippawa, Munsee and Delaware, Shawanee and Pottawatima Nations : holden at Fort Industry on the Miami of the lake, 1805 July 4.

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Treaty betwe[e]n the United States of America and the sachems, chiefs and warriors of the Wyandot, Ottawa, Chippawa, Munsee and Delaware, Shawanee and Pottawatima Nations : holden at Fort Industry on the Miami of the lake, 1805 July 4.

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Treaty, July 4, 1805, between the United States; the Wyandot, Ottawa, Chippewa, Delaware, Munsee, Potawatomi, and Shawnee; and agents Henry Champion of the Connecticut Land Company and Isaac Mills of the Proprietors of the Sufferers' Land, in which the tribes ceded their lands in the Western Reserve west of Cuyahoga to the companies for $18,916.67. Document contains the signatures of the commissioner (Charles Jouett), company agents, interpreters (Jasper Parrish, Whitmore Knaggs, William Walker), and witnesses (William Dean, J.B. Mower, Israel Ruland, E. Brush), and the names and marks of the tribes' headmen and chiefs.

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