 | Henry Brown - Illinois - 1844 - 524 pages
...Greenville, in August, 1795, negotiated by General Wayne, as wgll with the Pottawatomies as the Miamies, a tract of land six miles square, at the mouth of " the Chikago river," was ceded to the United States. From certain expressions used in the treaty, it would... | |
 | Henry Harvey - 1855 - 334 pages
...also the island De Bois Blanc, being an extra and voluntary gift of the Chippewa nation. 14. One piece of land, six miles square, at the mouth of the Chicago river, emptying into the south-west end of Lake Michigan, where a fort formerly stood. 15. One piece, twelve... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 748 pages
...the sole possessors, until the year 1795, when they became parties to the treaty with Wayne, by which a tract of land six miles square at the mouth of the Chicago River, was ceded to the United States — the first extinction of Indian title to the land on which Chicago... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1865 - 778 pages
...the sole possessors, until the year 1795, when they became parties to the treaty with Wayne, by which a tract of land six miles square at the mouth of the Chicago River, was ceded to the United States—the first extinction of Indian title to the land on which Chicago... | |
 | JAS. D. M'CABE, JR. - 1871 - 1164 pages
...the sole possessors, until the year 1795, when they became parties to a treaty with Wayne, by which a tract of land, six miles square, at the mouth of the Chicago River, was ceded to the United States—the first extinction of Indian title to the land on which Chicago... | |
 | Charles Richard Tuttle - Indians of North America - 1874 - 638 pages
...Greenville, in 1795, the Pottawatomies, Miainis and other nations agreed to relinquish their right to a peace of land six miles square at the mouth of the Chicago river, " where a fort formerly stood." The United States erected a small fort upon the site of the present... | |
 | Charles Richard Tuttle, Ames Castle Pennock - Northwest, Old - 1876 - 718 pages
...Greenville, in 1795, the Pottawatomies, Miamis and other nations agreed to relinquish their right to a piece of land, six miles square, at the mouth of the Chicago river, " where a fort formerly stood." The United States erected a small fort upon the site of the present... | |
 | John Wentworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1881 - 152 pages
...Greenville, in 1795, the Pottawatomies, Miamis, and their allies, relinquished their right to "one piece of land, six miles square, at the mouth of the Chicago River, emptying into the south-west end of Lake Michigan, where a fort formerlv stood." Many persons, besides... | |
 | Chicago (Ill.) - 1883 - 218 pages
...of General Anthony Wayne with the Indians in 1795 the Indiana ceded to the United States: "One piece of land six miles square at the mouth of the Chicago River, emptying into the southwest end of Lake Michigan where a fort formerly stood." It is supposed that... | |
 | Alfred Theodore Andreas - History - 1884 - 692 pages
...establish a post and a fort here. In 1795, by treaty with the Indians, the Government came into possession of a tract of land six miles square at the mouth of that river. To this locality, in the summer of 1803, Captain John Whistler's company was ordered from... | |
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One piece of land six miles square, at the mouth of the Chicago River, emptying into the southwest end of Lake Michigan where a fort formerly stood. 
