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Creeks at Creek Agency (1827)

In 1827 the Creeks ceded their remaining Georgia land, after the President urged them to extend the 1826 lines, for $27,491 and $15,000.

Signed
November 15, 1827
Senate
Ratified
Land given up
about 256,000 acres
The land in this treaty’s record. Open on the map

What happened

On November 15, 1827, Thomas L. McKenney and John Crowell signed articles of agreement at the Creek Agency. They signed for the United States, with Little Prince and other chiefs and head men of the Creek Nation.

The preamble looks back to the Treaty of Washington of January 24, 1826. That treaty was meant to cede all Creek land inside Georgia's chartered limits. It "having been since ascertained" that its lines, and a supplementary article, did not cover all of it, and "the President of the United States having urged the Creek Nation further to extend the limits," the chiefs, "being desirous of complying with the wish of the President," ceded "all the remaining lands now owned or claimed by the Creek Nation" within Georgia's chartered limits.

In return the United States agreed to pay $27,491 once the agreement was approved and ratified and had also been sanctioned by a council of the Creek Nation, or by added signatures of chiefs "as shall constitute it the act of the Creek Nation." It also agreed to allow $15,000 more, of which $5,000 was for the education and support of Creek children at a school in Kentucky.

The Statutes at Large record a proclamation on March 4, 1828. The agreement does not state how many acres were involved.

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

Supported by the sources below; some details rest on one source.

  1. the President of the United States having urged the Creek Nation further to extend the limitsTribal Treaties Database (OSU)
  2. as shall constitute it the act of the Creek NationTribal Treaties Database (OSU)
  3. Thomas L. McKenneyStatutes at Large, vol. 7 (GovInfo)

Research notes. The agreement says the President "urged" the extension; the sources cited describe no further pressure. Acreage is not stated.

What the treaty did to the land

About 256,000 acres given up. 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.

Who is doing the work today

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Sources

  1. treaties.okstate.edu/treaties/treaty-with-the-creeks-1827-0284reference work
    Nov. 15, 1827. | 7 Stat., 307. / scan: 284 TREATY WITH THE CREEKS, 1827.

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