We the Onondaga Nation do acknowledge to have received from the people of the state of New York by the hands of Jasper Parrish the sum of one thousand dollars : Buffalo, [N.Y.] : receipt, 1821 May 28.

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We the Onondaga Nation do acknowledge to have received from the people of the state of New York by the hands of Jasper Parrish the sum of one thousand dollars : Buffalo, [N.Y.] : receipt, 1821 May 28.

Receipt, May 28, 1821, signed with the marks of the chiefs of the Onondaga Nation (Captain Cole, Silver Smith, Big John, Samuel Jackson, Colonel Smith, Captain Crow), acknowledging that the Nation had received $1,000 from the state of New York via Jasper Parrish. This amount was payment in full of half the annuities due the tribe according to the provisions of the 1795 treaty at Cayuga Ferry.

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