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Apalachicola at Tallahassee, Florida Territory (1832)

In 1832 the Apalachicola Band surrendered its river reservation in Florida for $13,000 and agreed to move west of the Mississippi.

Signed
October 11, 1832
Senate
Ratified
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What happened

On October 11, 1832, the chiefs of the Apalachicola Band signed a treaty at Tallahassee, Florida Territory, with commissioner James Gadsden for the United States. The band surrendered "all their right, title and interest to a reservation of land" made for its benefit in the additional article of the 1823 Treaty of Camp Moultrie. That tract ran along the Apalachicola River, beginning one mile below Tuski Hajo's improvements.

The band agreed to remove, with its warriors and families then living on the reservation, "amounting in all to (256) two hundred and fifty-six souls," to the west of the Mississippi. The United States agreed to pay $13,000. Three thousand dollars was paid in cash. The other $10,000 was due when the band completed its arrangements and began to move. The money was to cover a party to explore the western country and "all the expenses of emigration, and subsistence."

The band would leave the reservation by November 1, 1833, with an extension of up to another year if unavoidable circumstances required it. The United States also agreed to continue to Blunt and Davy, chiefs of the towns agreeing to emigrate, their share of a $5,000 annuity.

The Statutes at Large record a proclamation on February 13, 1833. The treaty does not state the reservation's acreage, and the text does not say what happened after the band left.

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. surrender to the United States, all their right, title and interest to a reservation of landTribal Treaties Database (OSU)
  2. to meet the charges of a party to explore immediately the country west in search of a home more suitable to their habitsTribal Treaties Database (OSU)
  3. TREATY WITH THE APPALACHICOLA BANDStatutes at Large, vol. 7 (GovInfo)

Research notes. The page states no acreage and does not describe threats or pressure.

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. 1823

    Land kept

    Land set aside as a reservation for the Appalachicola

    By Treaty of Moultrie Creek (Florida tribes), 1823

    area 176

  2. 1832

    This treaty

    Land ceded to the United States by the Appalachicola

    In 1832 the Apalachicola Band surrendered its river reservation in Florida for $13,000 and agreed to move west of the Mississippi.

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Sources

  1. treaties.okstate.edu/treaties/treaty-with-the-appalachicola-band-1832-0352reference work
    Oct. 11, 1832. | 7 Stat., 377. / scan: 352 TREATY WITH THE .APP .AL.ACHICOLA B.AND, 1832.

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