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Wyandot at Washington, DC (1836)

In 1836 the Wyandot in Ohio ceded a five-mile strip of their Crawford County reservation and two small tracts for sale.

Signed
April 23, 1836
Senate
Ratified
Land given up
about 46,000 acres
The land in this treaty’s record. Open on the map

What happened

On April 23, 1836, John A. Bryan, commissioner for the United States, signed a treaty with William Walker, John Barnett and Peacock, chiefs and principal men of the Wyandot tribe in Ohio, acting for the tribe. A delegation of chiefs had come to Washington. Article 1 ceded a strip of land five miles in extent on the east end of the Wyandot reservation in Crawford County, Ohio. It also ceded one section in Cranberry Swamp on Broken Sword Creek, set out in an 1817 treaty, and 160 acres that replaced an equal quantity set apart in a supplemental 1818 treaty.

Under Article 2 the land was to be surveyed like other public lands and sold at a time and place the President directed. The money went back to the tribe. Article 5 allowed up to $20,000 of the proceeds, at the chiefs' direction, for rebuilding mills, repairing roads, schools and other public objects, with the rest distributed among tribe members like annuities. Article 4 charged the costs of the treaty, including the delegation's expenses, to the sale proceeds.

Article 8 said that if the Indians were not satisfied with the prices during the sale, the Register and Receiver would close it on the chiefs' written application and report to the War Department. The treaty was proclaimed on May 16, 1836. The treaty text does not describe the negotiation, and the sources used here do not say how the sale went.

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. cede to the United States a strip of land five miles in extent, on the east end of their reservation in Crawford countyTreaty with the Wyandot, 1836 (OSU Tribal Treaties Database)
  2. the Register and Receiver shall, on the written application of the chiefs, close the saleTreaty with the Wyandot, 1836 (OSU Tribal Treaties Database)
  3. a strip of land five miles in extentTreaty with the Wyandot, 7 Stat. 502 (govinfo)

Research notes. Acreage: a five-mile strip (no acreage stated), one section, and 160 acres. The sources used here do not say how the sale went or whether the Article 8 right was used. The later Wyandot cession of their remaining Ohio lands is not covered here.

What the treaty did to the land

About 46,000 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.

  1. 1817

    Land kept

    About 46,000 acres set aside as a reservation for the Wyandot tribe in Ohio

    By Treaty of the Maumee Rapids (Rapids of the Miami of Lake Erie), 1817

    area 211 area 212

  2. 1818

    Land kept

    About 46,000 acres set aside as a reservation for the Wyandot tribe in Ohio

    By Wyandot, Seneca, Shawnee, and Ottawa at St. Mary's, Ohio (1818)

    area 211 area 213

  3. 1836

    This treaty

    About 46,000 acres ceded to the United States by the Wyandot tribe in Ohio

    In 1836 the Wyandot in Ohio ceded a five-mile strip of their Crawford County reservation and two small tracts for sale.

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Sources

  1. treaties.okstate.edu/treaties/treaty-with-the-wyandot-1836-0460reference work
    Treaty with the Wyandot, 1836 Apr. 23, 1836. | 7 Stat., 502.

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