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23 October 1826 — Treaty with the Miami, near the mouth of the Mississinewa, 7 Stat. 300
The transaction: Commissioners Lewis Cass, James B. Ray and John Tipton — the Fort Wayne Indian agent, negotiating the cession of the country around his own agency — took from the Miami, at Paradise Springs near the mouth of the Mississinewa, "all their claim to land in the State of Indiana, north and west of the Wabash and Miami rivers, and of the cession made by the said tribe to the United States, by the treaty concluded at St. Mary's October 6, 1818." For Fort Wayne this was the decisive northern instrument: the Miami claim to the ground north of the Maumee and east toward the state line, which Greenville and St. Mary's had left untouched, was extinguished. What the tribe kept, the second article reserved: ten sections at White Raccoon's village, ten at the mouth of Mud Creek on Eel River, ten sections at the Forks of the Wabash, and a five-mile reserve running up the Wabash toward Eel River. The same article wrote the canal into the reserves before the canal existed: Indiana might lay out a canal or a road through any of the reservations, and six chains along any canal so laid out stood appropriated to it.
The consideration: The tribe's annuity rose to 25,000 dollars, in the summary of Miami historian Stewart Rafert. The money-and-goods figures survive in the period county histories in forms that do not quite agree: the 1887 Biographical and Historical Record of Putnam County prints 31,040.53 dollars in goods and the same sum in money at signing, a further payment the following year, and the 25,000-dollar indemnity continuing — the cents in its figures are carried here as that account prints them, not reconciled. The treaty also bought houses: the United States engaged to build a house worth up to 600 dollars for each of nine named men — Richardville, both Godfroys, Lafontaine, White Raccoon, La Gros, Flat Belly and Wau-we-as-see among them — and a wagon and yoke of oxen for nine more. Richardville's brick house at the Forks, built the next year with 600 dollars of federal money under this clause, still stands. The schedule of individual grants is accounted in the Richardville entry above.
Sources: Treaty with the Miami, 1826, Articles 1–3 and schedule, Kappler II / 7 Stat. 300 (full text: the Myaamia Center's treaty text); Rafert's summary as quoted in the scholarly literature (the 25,000-dollar annuity); Biographical and Historical Record of Putnam County (1887) — the goods and money figures, carried as that account prints them; Wau-pe-man-qua v. Aldrich, 28 F. 489 (the 1826 grants summarized).