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Potawatomi Treaty, 1828, Tracts of Land
Schedule referred to in Treaty With the Potawatomi, September 20, 1828 There shall be granted to the following persons, all of whom are Indians by descent, the tracts of land hereafter mentioned, which shall be located upon the second cession above described, where the President of the United States may
direct, after the country may be surveyed, and to correspond with the surveys, provided that no location shall be made upon the Elkheart Prairie, nor within five miles of the same; nor shall the tracts there granted be conveyed by the grantees, without the consent of the President of the United States. To Sah-ne-mo-quay, wife of Jean B. Dutrist, one-half section of land. To Way-pe-nah-te-mo-quay, wife of Thomas
Robb, one half section of land. To Me-no-ka-mick-quay, wife of Edward McCarty, one half section of land. To Ship-pe-shick-quay, wife of James Wyman, one half section of land. To Assapo, wife of Antoine Gamlin, one half section of land. To Moahquay, wife of Richard Chabert, one half section of land. To Me-shaw-ke-to-quay, wife of George Cicot, two sections of land.
To Mary Préjean, wife of Louis St. Combe, one section of land. To To-pe-naw-koung, wife of Peter Langlois, one section of land. To Au-bee-nan-bee, a Potowatami chief, two sections of land. To Me-che-hee, wife of Charles Minie, a half section of land. To Louison, a Potowatamie, a reservation of one section, to include his house and cornfield. To Kes-he-wa-quay, wife
of Pierre F. Navarre, one section of land. To Benac, a Potowatami, one section of land. To Pe-pe-ne-way, a chief, one section of land. To Pierre Le Clair, one section of land. To Betsey Ducharme, one half section of land. The section of land granted by the treaty of Chicago to Nancy Burnett, now Nancy Davis, shall be purchased by the United States, if the same can be done for the
sum of one thousand dollars. To Madeleine Bertrand, wife of Joseph Bertrand, one section of land. NOTE: At this time a reservation was usually 640 acres, not as we know reservations at the present time.
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