Today in Chickamauga History - December 1
1790, December 1: The speech of the Cornplanter, Half-Town, and the Great-Tree, Chiefs and Councillors of the Seneca nation, to the Great Councillor of the Thirteen Fires. - Refers to Washington as the town destroyer. Wish to open their hearts. Mention Treaty of Fort Stanwix. Mentions the resentment toward Six Nations for supporting British during Revolutionary War. Refers to past broken promises regarding treaty lines drawn by Commissioners. Mention John Livingston and Mr. Phelps and dubious land claims and threats of war. Phelps never paid what he promised. Indians ask, "where is the land which our children, and their children after them, are to lie upon." State that they know that the United States is strong, and have heard that Washington is wise. Ask for an answer, that they may know that he is just. - https://wardepartmentpapers.org/s/home/item/41016
1826, December 1: ARKANSAS TERRITORIAL PAPERS VOL XX – Page 312 – 313 - GEORGE GRAHAM TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL - [NA: GLO, Misc. Lets. Sent, Bk. 18}
1 Dec 1826
To WILLm WmT. Esq Att7 Gen. US.
A statement for the Attorney General.
By an Act passed on the 26th of May 1824, preemption rights are granted to certain persons in the Territory of Arkansas on certain conditions in the Land Districts in the Land District of Lawrence.47 On the 18th of January 1825 a treaty was ratified with the Quapaws by which a tract of Land was ceded to the US. part of which lies within the Land District of Lawrence.48
The boundaries of the Land District of Lawrence as they existed previous to the passage of the Act of May 1824, 49 extended into the Quapaw Country and embraced the Lands claimed to be entered under the Act of May 1824.
Quere. Are the Lands thus situated subject to be entered as preemption rights under the Act of 1824? If they be subject to such entry another question arises under the Act of 1824. for the decision of the Attorney General.-
By an act passed at the last Session of Congress, the limits of the Land District of Lawrence were extended so as to embrace a large quantity of very valuable Lands. 50-
Quere. Are the Lands embraced in this extension of the boundaries of the District subject to entry as Preemption rights under the Act of 1824?
48 Referring to the Quapaw treaty concluded Nov. 15, 1824, which was transmitted
to the Senate on Jan. 17, 1825, and ratified by that body on Feb. 11, 1825 (Senate, Exec. Journal, III, 410,413,414). The original MS. text of the treaty is in NA (SD, Indian Treaties). It is printed in 7 STAT. 232-234; Kappler (ed.), Indian Affairs, II, 529-530. The treaty was proclaimed Feb. 19, 1825. The land involved in the cession by the Quapaws is delineated in Royce, Indian Land
Cessions, plate 5, cession designation 121.