KNOW YE, That the undersigned, commissioners plenipotentiary of
the United States of America, of the one part, and of the whole
Choctaw nation of the other part, being duly authorised by the
President of the United States, and by the chiefs and headmen
of the said nation, do hereby establish in conformity to the convention
of Fort Confederation, for the line of demarkation recognized
in the said convention, the following metes and bounds, viz::
Beginning in the channel of the Hatchee Comesa, or Wax river,
at the point where the line of limits, between the United States
and Spain crosseth the same, thence up the channel of said river
to the confluence of the Chickasaw-Hay and Buck-hatannee rivers,
thence up the channel of the Buckhatannee to Bogue Hooma or Red
creek, thence up the said creek to a Pine tree standing on the
left bank of the same, and blazed on two of its sides, about twelve
links southwest of an old trading path, leading from the town
of Mobile to the Hewnnee towns, much worn, but not in use at the
present time :From this tree we find the following bearings and
distances, viz:: south fifty four degrees thirty minutes, west,
one chain, one link a black gum, north thirty nine degrees east
one chain seventy five links to a water oak; thence with the old
British line of partition in its various inflections, to a Mulberry
post, planted on the right bank of the main branch of Sintee Bogue
or Snake creek, where it makes a sharp turn to the south east,
a large broken top Cypress-tree standing near the opposite bank
of the creek, which is about three poles wide, thence down the
said creek to the Tombigby river, thence down the Tombigby and
Mobile rivers, to the above mentioned line of limits between the
United States and Spain, and with the same to the point of beginning:
And we, the said commissioners plenipotentiary, do ratify and
confirm the said line of demarcation, and do recognise and acknowledge
the same to be the boundary which shall separate and distinguish
the land ceded to the United States, between the Tombigby, Mobile
and Pascagola rivers, from that which has not been ceded by the
said Choctaw nation.
In testimony whereof, we hereunto affix our hands and seals, this
thirty-first day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and three, to triplicates of this tenor and date.
Done at Hoe-Buckin-too-pa, the day and year above written, and
in the twenty-seventh year of the independence of the United States.
Witnesses present:
Young Gains, interpreter,
John Bowyet, captain Second United States Regiment,
Joseph Chambers, United States factor.
We the commissioners of the Choctaw nation duly appointed and
the chiefs of the said nation who reside on the Tombigby river,
next to Sintee Bogue, do acknowledge to have received from the
United States of America, by the hands of Brigadier General
James Wilkinson, as a consideration in full for the confirmation
of the above concession, the following articles, viz: fifteen
pieces of strouds, three rifles, one hundred and fifty blankets,
two hundred and fifty pounds of powder, two hundred and fifty
pounds of lead, one bridle, one man's saddle, and one black silk
handkerchief.
Mingo Pooscoos, his x mark,
Alatala Hooma, his x mark,
Commissioners of the Choctaw nation.
Pio Mingo, his x mark,
Pasa Mastubby Mingo, his x mark,
Tappena Oakchin, his x mark,
Tuskenung Cooche, his x mark,
Cussoonuckchia, his x mark,
Pushapia, his x mark,
Chiefs residing on the Tombigbee near to St. Stephens.
Witnesses present:
Young Gains, interpreter,
John Bowyer, Captain Second United States Regiment,
Joseph Chambers, United States factor.
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