+BRITISH QUEEN 5th CONGRESS. No. 87. 3d SESSION.
THE ONEIDAS.
COMMUNICATED TO THE SENATE. JANUARY
31, 1799.
Gentlemen of the Senate:
I send you, for your consideration, a
treaty with the Oneida nation of Indians, made on the first day of June, 1798,
at their village.
January 30, 1799. JOHN ADAMS.
At a Treaty held with the Oneida
nation or tribe of Indians, at their village, in the State of New York, on the
first day of June, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight:
Present, Joseph Hopkinson, commissioner, appointed under the authority of the
United States to hold the treaty; Egbert Benson, Ezra L'Hommedieu, and John
Taylor, agents for the State of New York.
The said Indians having, in the month
of March last, proposed to the Governor of the said State, to cede the lands
hereinafter described, for the compensation hereinafter mentioned; and the said
Governor having acceded to the said proposal, and advanced to the said Indians,
at their desire, in part payment of the said compensation,
three hundred
dollars, to answer their then immediate occasions, the said cession is,
thereupon, in the presence, and with the approbation of the said commissioner,
carried into effect at this treaty; which hath, on the request of the said
Governor, been appointed to be held for the purpose, as follows, that is to
say: The said Indians do cede, release, and quit claim to the people of the
State of New York, forever, all the lands within their reservation, to the
westward and southwestward of a line from the northeastern corner of the lot
No. 54, in the last purchase from them, running northerly to a button wood
tree, marked on the east side
"Oneida R. 1798," on the
west side, "H.P.S. 1798," and on the south side, with three notches
and a blaze, standing on the bank of the Oneida lake, in the southern part of a
bay called Newageghkoo; also, a mile on each side of the main Genesee road, for
the distance of one mile and a half, westward, to commence at the eastern
boundary of their said reservation; and, also, the same breadth for the
distance of three miles, on the south side, and of one mile on the north side
of the said road, eastward, to commence at the eastern boundary of the said lot
No. 54: Provided and excepted, nevertheless, That the following Indian
families, viz: Sarah Docksteder,
Cornelius Docksteder, Jacob
Docksteder, Lewis Denny, John Denny, Jan Joost, and Nicholas, shall be suffered
to possess, of the tract first abovementioned, to grounds cultivated by them,
respectively, and their improvements, not exceeding fifty acres, to each
family, so long as they shall reside there; and in consideration of this
proviso and exception,
the said Indians do further cede that a tract of twelve
hundred and eighty acres, as follows, that is to say: Beginning in the
southeast corner of lot No. 59, in the said last purchase, and running thence,
east one mile; thence, north two miles; thence, west one mile; and thence,
south two miles, shall be considered as set apart by the said nation or tribe,
for the use of the said families, whenever they shall remove from where they
now reside.
The said agents do, for the people of
the said State, pay to the said Indians, in addition to the said sum of three
hundred dollars, already advanced to them, as abovementioned, the further sum
of two hundred dollars, and do grant to the said Indians, that the people of
the said State shall pay to the said Indians, at their said village, on the
first day of June next, and on the first day of June, yearly, thereafter, the
annual sum of seven hundred dollars.
JOSEPH HOPKINSON, Commissioner
Agents
EGBERT BENSON,
EZRA L'HOMMEDIEU,
JOHN TAYLOR,
And a number of Indians.
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