Choctaw at Hoe-Buckin-too-pa (1803)

What happened

On 31 August 1803, at Hoe-Buckin-too-pa, United States commissioner James Wilkinson and commissioners of the whole Choctaw nation set out the exact line of a boundary. The treaty says the line was established in conformity to the earlier convention of Fort Confederation. It begins on the channel of Hatchee Comesa or Wax River, at the line of limits between the United States and Spain. The line goes up that river and others, along an old British line of partition, to the Tombigby River, and down the Tombigby and Mobile rivers to the Spanish line.

The commissioners ratified and confirmed the line as the boundary between the land ceded to the United States, between the Tombigby, Mobile and Pascagola rivers, and the land the Choctaw nation had not ceded.

A second receipt is signed by Choctaw commissioners and chiefs who live on the Tombigby. It acknowledges receiving from the United States, by General Wilkinson, "a consideration in full" for confirming the concession: fifteen pieces of strouds, three rifles, 150 blankets, 250 pounds of powder, 250 pounds of lead, a bridle, a man's saddle and a black silk handkerchief.

It was proclaimed on 26 December 1803. The text gives no acreage.

Good to know. The goods receipt was signed by Choctaw leaders living on the Tombigbee, not by the whole nation.

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