Detroit Treaty

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In the contract, the area marked in dark yellow north of the Maumee River in northwest Ohio was assigned.

The Treaty of Detroit was a treaty between the United States and the Ottawa , Anishinabe , Wyandot, and Potawatomi , all Native American tribes in North America . The treaty was signed on November 17, 1807 in Detroit , Michigan by the representatives of the respective tribes and William Hull , governor of the Territory of Michigan and superintendent in Indian affairs, who alone represented the United States.

With this treaty, the Indians ceded a large part of the land that today forms south- east Michigan and north-west Ohio . The border formed the "mouth of the Miami River at the lakes", which is better known today as the Maumee River near Toledo , Ohio. From then on, the border runs up to the middle of the river at the mouth of the Auglaize River , where Defiance , Ohio is today , and then due north to the latitude where the Huron Sea flows into the St. Clair River .

For the north-south boundary, the Michigan meridian would be used, which was determined when Michigan was surveyed. Longitude is intersected at the northeast corner of what is now Sciota Township in Shiawassee County . From this point the border runs northeast to the White Rock on Lake Huron and then due east to the international border with what is now Upper Canada . Following the international border through the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair , the Detroit River and then into Lake Erie to a point east of the mouth of the Maumee River. At the end, head west to the starting point.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Treaty Between the Ottawa, Chippewa, Wyandot, and Potawatomi Indians . November 17, 1807. Retrieved August 3, 2013.

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