On August 3, 1829, members of the Shawnee Indians and the Seneca Indians signed the Treaty of Lewistown with the United States. In this treaty,

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and

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s living at

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, relinquished their claim to the land and joined the rest of the Ohio Senecas already living on a reservation west of the

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. The

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government granted this group of about three hundred Indians {{convert, 60000, acre, km2 of land in the west and a six thousand dollar advance on the sale of their Ohio lands. In addition, the United States presented the natives with blankets, plows, axes, hoes, rifles, and other supplies. On July 20, 1831, James B. Gardiner, acting on behalf of

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, signed the treaty which stipulated, in part:Treaty with the Seneca, etc., 1831
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References

* Ohio Historical Society, 2005
“Treaty of Lewistown (1829)”
''Ohio History Central: An Online Encyclopedia of Ohio History''.

References

Logan County, Ohio History of Ohio Lewistown 1829 treaties 1829 in Ohio