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Potawatomi Treaty, 1828 Claims for Reimbursement
Schedule referred to in Treaty With the Potawatomi, September 20, 1828 The following are probably non-Indian claims Thomas Robb $200, for goods heretofore sold to the Indians. McGeorge $300, for provisions sold to the Indians. Jno. B. Godfroy $200, for goods
heretofore sold to the Indians. Jno. P. Hedges $200, for goods heretofore delivered to the Indians. Joseph Allen $145, for horses stolen from him by the Indians while he was surveying. Jean B. Bourre $700, for goods furnished the Indians, a part of them in relation to this treaty. Thomas Forsyth $200, for goods heretofore sold to the Indians. S. Hanna & Co. $100, for
goods heretofore sold to the Indians. Gabriel Godfroy, jr., $500, for goods heretofore sold to the Indians. Timothy S. Smith $100, for goods heretofore sold to the Indians. W. G. and G. W. Ewings $200, for goods heretofore sold to the Indians. Joseph Bertrand $2,000, for goods heretofore sold to the Indians. To Eleanor Kinzie and her four children, by the late John
Kinzie, $3,500, in consideration of the attachment of the Indians to her deceased husband, who was long an Indian trader, and who lost a large sum in the trade by the credits given to them, and also by the destruction of his property. The money is in lieu of a tract of land which the Indians gave the late John Kinzie long since, and upon which he lived. Robert A. Forsyth $1,250, in consideration of the debts due from the
Indians to his late father, Robert A. Forsyth, who was long a trader among them, and who was assisted by his son, the present R. A. Forsyth. The money is in lieu of a tract of land which the Indians gave to the late R. A. Forsyth, since renewed to the present R. A. Forsyth, upon which both of them heretofore lived. Jean B. Comparet $500, for goods heretofore sold to the Indians. C. and D. Dousseau $100, for
goods heretofore sold to the Indians. P. F. Navarre $100, for goods heretofore sold to the Indians. Francis Paget $100, for goods heretofore sold to the Indians. G. O. Hubbard $200, for goods heretofore sold to the Indians. Alexis Coquillard $200, for goods heretofore sold to the Indians. Amounting, in the whole, to the sum of ten thousand eight hundred and
ninety-five dollars.
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