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Wyandot at St. Mary's, Ohio (1818)

In 1818 the Wyandot ceded two Michigan tracts at Brownstown and Maguaga for a 4,996-acre reservation on the Huron River.

Signed
September 20, 1818
Senate
Ratified
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What happened

On September 20, 1818, Lewis Cass, commissioner for the United States, signed a treaty at St. Mary's, Ohio, with the chiefs and warriors of the Wyandot tribe. It dealt with land in Michigan Territory.

In Article 1 the Wyandot ceded "all the right reserved to them" in two tracts. One included the village of Brownstown and the other the village of Maguaga, "formerly in the possession of the Wyandot tribe." The treaty says the two tracts held "not more than five thousand acres" in all. Under an act of Congress of February 28, 1809, "for the relief of certain Alabama and Wyandot Indians," they had been reserved for the Wyandot and their descendants for fifty years.

In Article 2, "in consideration of the preceding cession," the United States agreed to reserve for the Wyandot a set of numbered sections on the south side of the Huron River, in the fourth township south of the base line. The text gives their total as 4,996 acres. The Wyandot and their descendants would hold the land on the terms the 1809 act set for the Alabama Indians, except that they would keep it only as long as they or their descendants occupied it.

The treaty has two articles. The sources here do not describe the negotiation or later history of the Huron River reservation.

Summarized with AI assistance from 3 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. containing in the whole not more than five thousand acres of landTreaty with the Wyandot, 1818 (Oklahoma State University Tribal Treaties Database)
  2. an act for the relief of certain Alabama and Wyandot IndiansTreaty with the Wyandot, 1818 (Oklahoma State University Tribal Treaties Database)
  3. so long as they or their descendants shall occupy the sameTreaty with the Wyandot, 1818 (Oklahoma State University Tribal Treaties Database)

Research notes. This summary rests on the treaty text alone. The sources cited do not cover later history. The text states the ceded tracts held not more than 5,000 acres and the new reservation 4,996 acres.

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 kept

    Land set aside as a reservation for the Wyandot

    The 1899 record: “reserve for tbe Wyaiidots, two tracts, not exceeding 5,000 acres, at lirownstown and ilaguagua, Michigan terri- tory, provided that if”

    area 95 area 96

  2. 1818

    This treaty

    Land set aside as a reservation for the Wyandot. Land ceded to the United States by the Wyandot

    In 1818 the Wyandot ceded two Michigan tracts at Brownstown and Maguaga for a 4,996-acre reservation on the Huron River.

  3. 1842

    Land lost

    Land ceded to the United States by the Wyandot

    By Wyandot at Council House, Upper Sandusky, Ohio (1842)

    area 260

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Sources

  1. treaties.okstate.edu/treaties/treaty-with-the-wyandot-1818-0164reference work
    Sept. 20, 1818. | 7 Stat., 180. / scan: 164

Shapes are approximate and are not legal descriptions of land, title or jurisdiction.