Shawnee at Wapaghkonnetta, Ohio (1831)

What happened

On August 8, 1831, James B. Gardiner and John McElvain signed articles for the United States at Wapaghkonnetta, Allen County, Ohio. The other party was the principal chiefs, headmen and warriors of the Shawnee residing at Wapaghkonnetta and on Hog Creek.

The preamble says the President had acted under the Act of Congress of May 28, 1830, and that the Shawnee had "expressed their perfect assent to the conditions of the said act, and their willingness and anxiety to remove west of the Mississippi river." In Article 1 they ceded two reservations granted by the 1817 treaty. One was ten miles square, centered on the council house at Wahpaghkonnetta. The other was twenty-five square miles, including the Shawnee settlement on Hog Creek. They also ceded twelve thousand eight hundred acres granted at St. Mary's in 1818. Together this was "one hundred and forty-five sections or square miles."

In Article 2 the United States agreed to remove the band, "about four hundred souls," and grant them 100,000 acres within the fifty-mile-square tract granted to the Shawnee of Missouri in 1825. It also agreed to advance $13,000 in place of improvements, repaid from land sales. The Ohio land would be sold, with seventy cents per acre and other costs deducted, and any balance would pay five percent a year. Joseph Parks, "a quarter blooded Shawnee," was granted a section of 640 acres. The Statutes at Large record a proclamation on April 6, 1832.

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