lature, to which said indentures or Instruments in writing under seal reference is hereby had, to have and to hold the said premises free and discharged of any claim or demand soever of our said Tribe of St. Regis Indians on whose behalf we hereby convey the same forever. In Witness Whereof We have have hereto set our hands and affixed our Seals the fourteenth day of December in the Year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four Be it remembered that on the third day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five came before me Thomas Williams, Mitchell Cook, Lewis Doublehouse, Peter Tarbell, Charles Cook to me well known, and executed the within deed as of the date therein mentioned in my prsence by making their respective marks and being duly questioned thro their Interpretor Wm. L. Gray severally acknowledged that they execute the same for the uses and purposes therein mentioned, and the said Wm. L. Gray to me also known being duly sworn, on his Oath says, that the purport of said deed was by him fully explained to and understood by said parties executing the same and is in accordance with their request that having inperpreted the same to them, he subscribed his name thereto as Witness to the execution thereof & finding no material interlineations therein I do allow the same to be recorded. JOHN S. ELDRIDGE, Comr. I Asa Wheeler Clerk of the County & Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that John S. Eldridge whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the acknownedgment of the annexed Instrument & endorsed thereon was on the day of the date thereof a Commissioner in and for the County aforesaid dwelling in the said County commissioned and sworn and duly authorized by law to take the proof and acknowledgment of Deeds &c and further that I am acquainted with the hand writing & verily believe that the signature of John S. Eldridge subscribed to the said Certificate is the proper hand writing of the said Commissioner. In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and & affixed the seal of the said County this 8th. day of October 1825. ASA WHEELER. Recorded December 30, 1825 and agrees with the original compared therewith by ARCHD CAMPBELL Dep. Secretary. At a Treaty held in the City of Albany the twenty third day of September in the Year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and twenty five Between his Excellency DeWitt Clinton Governor of the State of New York and Thomas Williams Mitchel Cook Lewis Doublehouse, Peter Tarbell, Charles Cook Thomas Tarbell Mitchel Tarbell, Louis, Tarbell Bettice Tarbell Jarvis Williams and William L. Gray Chiefs and Trustees of the Tribe of Indians called the St. Regis Indians. It is covenanted and agreed as follows to wit: The said Indians sell and hereby convey to the People of the State of New York out of the lands reserved to the said Indians & Tract bounded as follows to wit: Beginning on the Easterly side of the St. Regis River at the most westerly corner of the lands ceded by said Indians to the People of said State on the twelfth day of June in the year One thousand eight hundred and twenty four and running thence along the last mentioned land south forty five degrees East to the south bounds of the said reserved lands then along the same Westerly to the said St. Regis River and then down along the same to the place of beginning, estimated to Contain Eight hundred and [Assembly, No. 51.] 48 forty acres-In consideration whereof the said Governor now pays to the said Chiefs and Trustees the sum of Two thousand one hundred dollars in full for the same-In Testimony Whereof the parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written. DEWITT CLINTON [L. &] Be it remembered that on the twenty third day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty five before me Garrit V. Denniston one of the Commissioners of the State of New York duly authorized to take the acknowledgment of Deeds &c came DeWitt Clinton Governor of the State of New York to me known and duly acknowledged to have executed the within Deed for the uses and purposes within mentioned and on the same day also came before me Isaac Seymour One of the subscribing witnesses to the execution of the within Deed and who has been identified to my satisfaction by the oath of Isaac Denniston to me Known and thereupon the said Isaac Seymour upon his oath says that he saw Thomas Williams, Mitchel Cook Louis Doublehouse Peter Tarbell Charles Cook Thomas Tarbell Mitchel Tarbell Louis Tarbell Bettice Tarbell Jarvis Williams and William L. Gray who are all known to witness Execute and deliver the within Deed for the uses and purposes within mentioned and that he together with Simeon DeWitt and Isaac Denniston subscribed their names as witnesses to the execution thereof—I allow the same to be recorded— GARRIT V. DENNISTON Commissioner &c. Recorded October 25. 1825 and agrees with the original Compared therewith by ARCHD. CAMPBELL Dep. Secretary. Atea Treaty held at the City of Albany on the twenty-first day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty five Between the tribe or nation of Indians known by the name of the St. Regis Indians, by their Chiefs and Trustees hereinafter named of the first part and the Commissioners of the Land Office on behalf of the People of the State of New York of the Second part: Whereas by the act entitled "An Act in relation to certain tribes of Indians" passed May 25, 1841 the Commissioners of the Land Office are authorized to make such treaties contracts and arrangements with any tribe or Nation of Indians or with any parry or portion of them or with any Individual Indian or Indians who have any claim upon any lands in this State for the purchase of any portion of such lands as the said Commissioners may deem just and proper: And Whereas the said St. Regis Indians own certain lands in the County of St. Lawrence known and distinguished as the Indian Meadows or Grass River, on both sides of the said river or as Islands in the said river, which meadows were reserved in and by the Treaty made with the said Indians on the 31st day of May 1796: And Whereas the said Indians are now desirous of ceding and conveying the said Meadows and Islands to the people of the State of New York-It is covenanted and agreed by the said parties as follows to wit: 1. The said Indians hereby cede and convey to the people of the tate of New York all their right title and interest of in and to 380 [ASSEMBLY, the said Indian Meadows on both sides of the said Grass River or any Islands in the said river in the county aforesaid forever hereafter: 2. In consideration of the cession and conveyance aforesaid the said Commissioners covenant and agree to cause to be paid to the said Indians at and after the rate of three dollars per acre for the said Meadows and Islands as soon as a correct survey thereof can be made in order to ascertain the number of acres therein contained. 3. The said Commissioners covenant and agree to cause the said Meadows and Islands to be accurately Surveyed under the direction of the Surveyor General with as little delay as possible. 4. It appearing by a map made by Amos Lay in the year 1801 now on file in the Surveyor Generals Office that the said Indian Meadows and Islands contain in the whole the quantity of Two hundred and ten acres and four tenths of an acre: It is therefore agreed that the sum of four hundred dollars be now paid to the said Indians and when the Survey aforesaid shall be made and returned to the Surveyor General the remainder of the consideration money at the rate aforesaid shall be paid to them in full. In Witness Whereof Mitchell Tarbell John Swamp and Thomas Tarbell Chiefs and Trustees and Michael Gaurealt Clerk and Peter Gray Interpreter of the said Tribe or Nation and on behalf thereof have hereunto set their hands and Seals the day and year aforesaid: And the Commissioners of the Land Office of the said State on behalf of the said People have also hereunto subscribed their names on the same day, his his JOHN Χ SWAMP [L. 8.] mark his THOMAS x TARBELL [L. 8.] mark MICHAEL GAREAULT [L. &] PETER GRAY [L. B.] ISAAO DENNISTON. A. GARDINER Lt. Governor Comm'rs of the Land Office. |