Greenville Treaty

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First page of the Greenville Treaty.
The Ohio and Indiana boundaries set out in the Greenville Treaty

The Treaty of Greenville was signed by a Confederation of Native Americans and the United States on August 3, 1795 at Fort Greenville (now Greenville , Ohio ) after the American Indians lost the Battle of Fallen Timbers . The treaty marked the end of the Northwest Indian Wars . The United States was represented by General "Mad" Anthony Wayne , who defeated the Native Americans at Fallen Timbers . In exchange for $ 20,000 worth of goods (such as blankets, utensils, and pets), the Native Americans gave the United States much of what is now Ohio, the future location of Chicago, and the Fort Detroit area.

The Native American leaders who signed the treaty were members of the following tribes:

Contract negotiations (1795)

The treaty established what came to be known as the Greenville Treaty Line, which for several years formed a boundary between Native American territory and land open to white settlers. The settlers often disregarded the treaty boundary when they settled on land that the treaty gave the Native Americans. The border formed the mouth of the Cuyahoga River at the current location of Cleveland and then ran south along the river to the Portage between the Cuyahoga and Tuscarawas Rivers in what is now known as the Portage Lakes area between Akron and Canton . Then the Tuscarawas went down to Fort Laurens near today's Bolivar and from there west-southwest to today's nearby Fort Loramie on the banks of the Great Miami River . From then on, the border ran west-northwest to Fort Recovery on the Wabash River , near today's border between the states of Ohio and Indiana . From Fort Recovery it went south-southwest to the Ohio River to a point opposite the mouth of the Kentucky River , where today's Carrollton , Kentucky is.

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  1. ↑ This picture shows the negotiations for the Greenville Treaty of 1795 and is from one of the officers on Anthony Wayne's staff.

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