The First Treaty of Buffalo Creek signed on July 8, 1788
Phelps and Gorham purchased title to lands east from the
Genesee River
The Genesee River is a tributary of Lake Ontario flowing northward through the Twin Tiers of Pennsylvania and New York in the United States.
The river provided the original power for the Rochester area's 19th century mills and still provides h ...
in New York to the
Preemption Line
The Preemption Line (also spelled Pre-Emption) divided the aboriginal lands of western New York State awarded to New York from those awarded to Commonwealth of Massachusetts by the Treaty of Hartford of 1786. It was defined as the meridian (north ...
.
See also
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Treaty of Canandaigua
The Treaty of Canandaigua (or Konondaigua, as spelled in the treaty itself) also known as the Pickering Treaty and the Calico Treaty, is a treaty signed after the American Revolutionary War between the Iroquois#Government, Grand Council of the Si ...
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Treaty of Big Tree
The Treaty of Big Tree was a formal treaty signed in 1797 between the Seneca Nation and the United States, in which the Seneca relinquished their rights to nearly all of their traditional homeland in New York State—nearly 3.5 million acres. In ...
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Second Treaty of Buffalo Creek (1838)
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Third Treaty of Buffalo Creek (1842)
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Fourth Treaty of Buffalo Creek (1857)
Notes
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References
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Laurence M. Hauptman, ''Conspiracy of Interests: Iroquois Dispossession and the Rise of New York State'' (2001).
Seneca tribe
Buffalo Creek
History of Buffalo, New York
1788 treaties
Aboriginal title in New York