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Potawatomi at Potawatomi Mills, Indiana (1834)

On 16 December 1834 Potawatomi leaders ceded two Indiana sections with their mills for $700, $900 in debts and an end to the miller.

Signed
December 16, 1834
Senate
Ratified

What happened

On 16 December 1834, at the Potawattimie mills in Indiana, William Marshall, commissioner for the United States, made a short treaty with the chiefs, headmen and warriors of the Potawatomi (spelled Potawattamis in the text).

In Article 1 they agreed to cede to the United States their title and interest to a reservation of two sections of land that included their mills on the Tippecanoe River. The text says this reservation was made at the Tippecanoe treaty of 27 October 1832; the Comoza treaty of 4 December 1834 calls the earlier treaty 26 October 1832.

In Article 2 the United States agreed to pay the Potawatomi seven hundred dollars in cash at the payment of their annuities in 1835, and to pay their just debts according to an attached schedule amounting to nine hundred dollars.

In Article 3 the miller provided for in the third article of the Potawatomi treaty of 16 October 1826 was no longer to be supported by the United States, and would stop from the signing.

Article 4 made the treaty binding once the President and Senate ratified it. The page lists a proclamation on 16 March 1835. The schedule of debts is not shown.

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. agree to cede to the United States their title and interest to a reservation made to them at the treaty on the Tippecanoe riverTreaty with the Potawatomi, 1834 (Potawatomi Mills), Tribal Treaties Database
  2. the sum of seven hundred dollars in cash, and pay their just debts agreeably to a schedule hereunto annexed, amounting to nine hundred dollarsTreaty with the Potawatomi, 1834 (Potawatomi Mills), Tribal Treaties Database
  3. is not to be supported by the United States, and to cease from and after the signing of this treatyTreaty with the Potawatomi, 1834 (Potawatomi Mills), Tribal Treaties Database
  4. Articles of a treaty, made and concluded at the Potawattimie mills, in the State of IndianaTreaty with the Potawatomi, 1834 (Potawatomi Mills), Tribal Treaties Database

Research notes. The text and the companion Comoza treaty give different days (27 vs 26 October 1832) for the earlier Tippecanoe treaty; the reason is not known. The schedule of debts is not printed.

What happened next

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Sources

  1. treaties.okstate.edu/treaties/treaty-with-the-potawatomi-1834-0430reference work
    Treaty with the Potawatomi, 1834 Dec. 16, 1834. | 7 Stat., 468.

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