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23 October 1834 and 6 November 1838 — 7 Stat. 458; 7 Stat. 569
1834: At the Forks of the Wabash — Richardville's own seat, at present Huntington — Commissioner William Marshall bought back the tribal reserves the 1826 treaty had created eight years before: thirty-six sections at Flat Belly's village; the five-mile reserve on the Wabash, about 23,000 acres, running back to Eel River; ten sections at Raccoon's village; ten sections at Mud Creek on Eel River. The third article and its schedule converted chiefly claims into patents — Godfroy's Salamonie sections commuted, Paul Longlois's section on the Wabash confirmed — and the fourth article patented the ten-section Forks reserve to Richardville personally. The treaty was signed in October 1834; the Senate's amendments were not accepted by the tribe until November 1837, and it was proclaimed that December — a three-year gap between signature and force that the dates on the instruments preserve. A period county history prices the mid-1830s reserve sales together at 177,000 acres for 335,680 dollars, including a strip seven miles wide along the west side of the Big Reserve, transferred by the United States to Indiana for completing the canal below the Tippecanoe; the treaty texts itemize the smaller tracts named above, and the two accountings are carried side by side here rather than merged.
1838: On 6 November 1838, again at the Forks, the Miami ceded a further great tract — everything the cessions had left them outside the residue of the Big Reserve and the individual reserves — reserving from it one tract for the band of Me-to-sin-ia. The 1840 treaty would confirm a patent to his son Me-shing-go-me-sia (Meshingomesia) for that reserve, the last tribal reserve patented in Indiana; its Wabash-county ground lay outside Allen County, and it is recorded here as the closing instrument of the series before the final cession.
Sources: Treaty at the Forks of the Wabash, 1834, Articles 1–4 and schedule, Kappler II / 7 Stat. 458 (full text: the Myaamia Center treaty text; proclamation 22 December 1837); Treaty with the Miami, 1838, 7 Stat. 569, as summarized in Wau-pe-man-qua v. Aldrich and the 1840 treaty, Article 7; Biographical and Historical Record of Putnam County (1887) — the 177,000 acres / 335,680 dollars account, flagged in the notes.