Articles supplementary
to certain treaties between the United States
and the Saganaw tribes of Chippewa.
ART. 1.
Whereas the said tribe have, by the treaty of
the 14th January, 1837, ceded to the United States,
all their reserves of land in the State of Michigan,
on the principle of said reserves being sold at
the public land offices for their benefit, and
the actual proceeds being paid to them, as farther
defined by stipulations contained in the amendments
to said treaty of the 20th December 1837, and
of the 23d January 1838. And whereas it is required
by a subsequent law of Congress, to erect a light-house
on one of said reserves, called Na-bo-bish tract,
lying at the mouth of the Saganaw river, and to
reserve so much of the same from sale as may be
necessary; it is therefore hereby agreed, by the
said tribe, that for, and in consideration of
the sum of eight dollars per acre, one sixteenth
of a section of said tract, situated as aforesaid,
shall be, and the same is hereby appropriated
and set apart, to be located and disposed of in
any manner the President may direct. And the same
shall be reserved from sale, and all claim to
any proceeds therefrom, except the sum herein
before stipulated, is fully, completely and forever
relinquished by said tribe.
ART. 2.
This compact shall be submitted to the President
and Senate of the United States, to be approved
by them, whereupon possession of the land may
be immediately taken, and the usufructory right
of the Indians thereto shall cease.
In testimony whereof, the Acting Superintendent
pro tem. of Indian Affairs for the State of Michigan,
duly authorized for this purpose, and the chiefs
of said tribe, have hereunto set their hands and
seals at Lower Saginaw, in Michigan, this seventh
day of February, in the year eighteen hundred
and thirty-nine.
John Hulbert,
Acting Superintendent of Indian Affairs pro tem.
Ogima Kegido,
Waubredoaince,
Muckuk Kosh,
Osaw Wauban,
Sheegunageezhig,
Penayseewabee,
Caw-ga-ke-seh-sa,
Shawun Epenaysee.
In presence of—
J. E. Schwarz, adjutant-general M. M.
Henry Connor, subagent.
Leon Tremble, jr., U. S. interpreter.
B. C. Tremble.
Joseph Tremble.
(To the Indian names are subjoined a mark and
seal.)
Feb. 7, 1839. | 7 Stat., 579. | Proclamation,
Mar. 2, 1839.
Supplementary article to a certain treaty between
the United States and the Chippewa chiefs of Saganaw,
concluded at Lower Saganaw on the seventh day
of February eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.
ART. 1st.
Whereas by the first article of the aforesaid
treaty, the chiefs stipulate to sell to the United
States forty acres of land to be located on the
Na-bo-bish tract at the mouth of Saganaw river,
for the purpose of erecting thereon a light-house.
Now provided the President of the U. S. should
prefer forty acres, on the tract, known as the
forty thousand acre reservation, at the mouth
of the aforesaid river, he is fully authorized
by these presents to change the location from
the Na-bo-bish tract, to the said forty thousand
acre reservation.
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Signed and sealed at Lower Saganaw this seventh
day of February, 1839.
John Hulbert,
Acting Superintendent of Indian Affairs pro tem.
Ogima Kegido,
Waubredoaince,
Muckuk Kosk,
Osau Wauban,
Sheeguanageezhig
Penayseewabee,
Caw-ga-ke-seh-sa,
Shawun Epenaysee.
In presence of—
J. Schwarz, adjutant general, M. M.
Henry Connor, subagent.
Leon Tremble, jr., U. S. interpreter.
B. C. Tremble.
Joseph Tremble.
(To the Indian names are subjoined a mark and
seal.)
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In
March and April, 1996, a group of genealogists
organized the Michigan Comprehensive Genealogy
Database. The idea was to provide a single entry
point for all counties in Michigan, where collected
databases would be stored. In addition, the databases
would be indexed and cross-linked, so that even
if an individual were found in more than one county,
they could be located in the index.