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Wea and Indians Northwest of the Ohio at Vincennes, Indiana Territory (1809)

The Wea consented to the 1809 Fort Wayne treaty for an added annuity and $1,500 in goods, at Vincennes.

Signed
October 26, 1809
Senate
Ratified
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What happened

On October 26, 1809, William Henry Harrison met the sachems and head warriors of the Wea tribe at Vincennes, Indiana Territory, and signed a short convention. It was the next step after the Treaty of Fort Wayne of September 30, 1809. That treaty had said the Wea's consent was needed to complete the title to the first tract of land the Miami, Eel River, Delaware and Potawatomi agreed to cede.

The Wea declared "their full and free consent" to the Fort Wayne treaty with the Delaware, Miami, Potawatomi and Eel River. They also consented to a separate article made the same day with the Miami and Eel River.

In return, "in consideration of the relinquishment made in the first article" of the Fort Wayne treaty, Harrison agreed for the United States to an added annuity of $300 and a present sum of $1,500. He also agreed to a further permanent annuity of $100 "as soon as the Kickapoos can be brought to give their consent to the ninth article" of the Fort Wayne treaty.

The Kickapoo gave that consent on December 9, 1809, in a separate treaty at Vincennes. The OSU record shows this Wea convention was ratified on January 2, 1810, and proclaimed January 25, 1810. The sources here give no acreage and do not describe the council.

Summarized with AI assistance from 4 sources and checked against their words; not yet reviewed by historians or by the nations. Report an error

What the sources say, and how this was checked

Well supported by the sources below.

  1. hereby declare their full and free consent to the treaty concluded at fort WayneTreaty with the Wea, 1809 (Oklahoma State University Tribal Treaties Database)
  2. an additional annuity of three hundred dollars, and a present sum of fifteen hundred dollarsTreaty with the Wea, 1809 (Oklahoma State University Tribal Treaties Database)
  3. as soon as the Kickapoos can be brought to give their consent to the ninth article of said treatyTreaty with the Wea, 1809 (Oklahoma State University Tribal Treaties Database)
  4. the cession it containes is hereby agreed to by the KickapoosTreaty with the Kickapoo, 1809 (Oklahoma State University Tribal Treaties Database)

Research notes. This summary rests on the treaty texts alone. The Wea were the tribe whose consent the Fort Wayne treaty made necessary; the text says they consented 'freely' but no independent source on that is cited. No source shows whether the $100 annuity was paid after Kickapoo consent.

What the treaty did to the land

Each shape is a numbered area in the federal government’s 1899 record of land cessions.

What happened next

Everything the record holds about this land and this treaty, in order: what earlier agreements said, what this one did, and what the United States, the courts and the nations did afterwards.

  1. 1809

    Land lost

    About 2.0 million acres ceded to the United States by the Delaware, Eel River Miami and others

    By Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809), Delaware, Potawatomi, Miami, Eel River

    area 71

  2. 1809

    This treaty

    Earlier terms confirmed for the land of the Delaware, Eel River Miami and others

    The Wea consented to the 1809 Fort Wayne treaty for an added annuity and $1,500 in goods, at Vincennes.

  3. 1816

    Land record

    Earlier terms confirmed for the land of the Delaware, Eel River Miami and others

    By Wea and Kickapoo at Fort Harrison, Indiana Territory (1816)

    area 71

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Sources

  1. treaties.okstate.edu/treaties/treaty-with-the-wea-1809-0103reference work
    Oct. 26, 1809. | 7 Stat., 116. / scan: TREATY WITH THE WEA, 1809. 103

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