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7 June 1803 — Treaty of Fort Wayne, 7 Stat. 74
The transaction: The first treaty that bears this place's name was concluded at the fort on 7 June 1803, between Governor William Henry Harrison and the Delaware, Shawnee, Potawatomi, Eel River, Wea, Kickapoo, Piankashaw and Kaskaskia. Its land business was not local: the tribes confirmed and ceded the tract around Vincennes — the old French settlement country on the lower Wabash — and ceded the salt spring on Saline Creek with a strip around it, in exchange for annuities and a United States promise to restrain settlement on tribal land. It belongs in this section for two reasons. It shows Fort Wayne already functioning as the treaty venue of the upper Wabash, the place where the paperwork was done. And it fixed the pattern every later entry follows: the commissioners came to the Miami's country to take signatures, and the cessions crept toward the town that hosted them.
Sources: Treaty with the Delawares, etc., 1803, Kappler II / 7 Stat. 74; National Archives, Ratified Indian Treaty file (the companion Vincennes instrument of 7 August 1803 is a separate document and is not this treaty).