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_ TREATY WITI1 THE NEW YORK INDIANS. 1838. 557 To Jonathan Printess, ninety-three dollars. To William Chew, one hundred and fifteen dollars. To John Patterson, forty-six dollars. To William Mountpleasant, one hundred and seventy-one dollars. 'I`o James Cusick, one hundred and twenty-five dollars. T0 David Peter, fifty dollars. The rest and residue thereof is to be paid to the nation. The above was agreed to before the execution of the treaty. R. H. GILLET, Commissioner. SCHEDULE C. Schedule applicable to the Onondagas and Cayugas residing on the Disposition of Seneca reservations. It is agreed that the following disposition shall *l?° $4000 P'°‘ be made of the amount set apart to be divided by the chiefs of those 8?,;°:,,§;r;;’°,ud nations, in the preceding parts of this treaty, any thing therein to the Cayugaé contrary notwithstanding. To William King, one thousand five hundred dollars. Joseph Isaacs, seven hundred dollars. Jack Wheelbarrow, three hundred dollars. Silversmith, one thousand dollars. William Jacket, five hundred dollars. Buton George, five hundred dollars. The above was agreed to before the treaty was finally executed. R. H. GILLET, Commissioner. At a treaty held under the authority of the United States of America, ],m_ I5_ 1g3S_ at Buffalo Creek in the county of Erie, and State of New York, between im the chiefs and head men of the Seneca nation of Indians, duly assem- ,h2;,$§2°,??,,:,%S bled in council, and representing and acting for the said nation, on the by rhs Senecas one part, and Thomas Ludlow Ogden of the city of New York and Jo- 3},*1*** °;l°*° of seph Fellows of Geneva, in the county of Ontario, on the other part, re,?;:?, f:??' concerning the purchase of the right and claim of the said Indians in 10th article. and to the lands within the State of New York remaining in their occupation: Ransom H. Gillet, Esquire, a commissioner appointed by the President of the United States to attend and hold the said treaty, and also Josiah Trowbridge, Esquire, the superintendent on behalf of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being severally present at the said treaty, the said chiefs and head men, on behalf of the Seneca nation did agree to sell and release to the said Thomas Ludlow Ogden and Joseph Fellows, and they the said Thomas Ludlow Ogden and Joseph Fellows did agree to purchase all the right, title and claim of the said Seneca nation ot, in and to the several tracts, pieces, or parcels of land mentioned, and described in the instrument of writing next hereinafter set forth, and at the price or sum therein specified, as the consideration, or purchase money for such sale and release; which instrument being read and explained to the said parties and mutually agreed to, was signed and sealed by the said contracting parties, and is in the words following: This indenture, made this fifteenth day of January in the year of our The deed of Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, between the chiefs °°“'°Y““‘f°· and head men of the Seneca nations of Indians, duly assembled in council, and acting for and on behalf of the said Seneca nation, of the first part, and Thomas Ludlow Ogden, of the city of N os; Ygrk, and Joseph w