ARTICLE 1. WHEREAS the Chickasaw nation of Indians have
been for some time embarrassed by heavy debts due to their merchants
and traders, and being destitute of funds to effect important
improvements in their country, they have agreed and do hereby
agree to cede to the United States, and forever quit claim to
the tract of country included within the following bounds, to
wit: beginning on the left bank of Ohio, at the point where the
present Indian boundary adjoins the same, thence down the left
bank of Ohio to the Tennessee river, thence up the main channel
of the Tennessee river to the mouth of Duck river; thence up
the left bank of Duck river to the Columbian highway or road
leading from Nashville to Natchez, thence along the said road
to the ridge dividing the waters running into Duck river from
those running into Buffaloe river, thence easterly along the
said ridge to the great ridge dividing the waters running into
the main Tennessee river from those running into Buffaloe river
near the main source of Buffaloe river, thence in a direct line
to the Great Tennessee river near the Chickasaw old fields or
eastern point of the Chickasaw claim on that river; thence northwardly
to the great ridge dividing the waters running into the Tennessee
from those running into Cumberland river, so as to include all
the waters running into Elk river, thence along the top of the
said great ridge to the place of beginning: reserving a tract
of one mile square adjoining to, and below the mouth of Duck
river on the Tennessee, for the use of the chief O'Koy
or Tishumastubbee.
ARTICLE 2. The United States on their part, and in consideration
of the above cession, agree to make the following payments, to
wit: Twenty thousand dollars for the use of the nation at large,
and for the payment of the debts due to their merchants and
traders; and to George Colbert and O'Koy two thousand
dollars, that is, to each one thousand dollars. This sum is
granted to them at the request of the national council for services
rendered their nation, and is to be subject to their individual
order, witnessed by the resident agent; also to Chinubbee Mingo,
the king of the nation, an annuity of one hundred dollars, during
his natural life, granted as a testimony of his personal worth
and friendly disposition. All the above payments are to be made
in specie.
ARTICLE 3. In order to preclude for ever all disputes
relative to the boundary mentioned in the first section, it is
hereby stipulated, that the same shall be ascertained and marked
by a commissioner or commissioners on the part of the United
States, accompanied by such person as the Chickasaws may choose,
so soon as the Chickasaws shall have thirty days' notice of the
time and place, at which the operation is to commence: and the
United States will pay the person appointed on the part of the
Chickasaws two dollars per day during his actual attendance on
that service.
ARTICLE 4. It is hereby agreed on the part of the United
States, that from and after the ratification of these articles,
no settlement shall be made by any citizen, or permitted by the
government of the United States, on that part of the present
cession included between the present Indian boundary and the
Tennessee, and between the Ohio and a line drawn due north from
the mouth of Buffaloe to the ridge dividing the waters of Cumberland
from those of the Tennessee river, to the term of three years.
ARTICLE 5. The articles now stipulated will be considered
as permanent additions to the treaties now in force between the
contracting parties, as soon as they shall have been ratified
by the President of the United States of America, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate of the said United States.
In witness of all and every thing herein determined, the parties
have hereunto interchangeably set their hands and seals, in the
Chickasaw country, this twenty-third day of July, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five, and of the
independence of the United States of America the thirtieth.
Commissioners:
James Robertson
Silas Dinsmoor,
Chiefs and warriors:
Chenubbee Mingo, the king, his x mark,
George Colbert, his x mark,
O Koy, his x mark,
Tiphu Mashtubbee, his x mark,
Choomubbee, his x mark,
Mingo Mattaha, his x mark,
E. Mattaha Meko, his x mark,
Wm. McGillivry, his x mark,
Tisshoo Hooluhta, his x mark, Levi Colbert,
his x mark,
Signed, sealed, and interchanged, in presence of
Thomas Augustine Claiborne, secretary to the commissioners,
W.P. Anderson, of Tennessee.
Malcolm McGee, his x mark,
Samuel Mitchell, United States agent to the Chickasaw nation
John Pitchlynn,
Christopher Olney,
John McKee,
Wm. Tyrrell,
R. Chamberlin, second lieutenant Second Regiment Infantry, Sworn interpreters.
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