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Jefferson, Madison signed superb grant awarded to proselytize Indians with unique hand drawn plot plan
Jefferson, Madison signed superb grant awarded to proselytize Indians with unique hand drawn plot plan
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Jefferson, Madison signed superb grant awarded to proselytize Indians with unique hand drawn plot plan

 

Partially Printed Document Signed, "Th: Jefferson", as President, and "James Madison" as Secretary of State, one page, vellum, 15.75" X 8.75", May 6, 1805, City of Washington. Completed in secretarial hand. Docket to verso  in the "Recorder Office Guernsey County … " with an extraordinary hand drawn plot plan indicating the location as being "two miles south of the Road leading from Kentucky to Philadephia", with a drawing depicting "Branch of Wills Creek", located in Guernsey Ohio. The grant is one of the finest of the many was have had in terms of condition and context. Maintains the usual folds not affecting the bold signatures. Seal affixed later.

 

A most unique example with a scarce hand drawn plot plan, shown in part below.

 

"Know Ye, That in pursuance of the act of Congress, passed on the first day of June 1796, entitled, "An act regulating the grants of 'Land appropriated for Military Services, and for the society of the United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the heathen;'...There is granted unto John Bryant a Soldier in the late army of the United States, in consideration of his Military services, a certain tract of land estimated to contain one hundred acres, being Lot number One in the Third Quarter of the Second Township in the Second Range of the Tract appropriated for satisfying warrants..."

 

The Land Ordinance of 1785 established a procedure for sale of government land in what is now Ohio. It read in part: “And be it further ordained, That the towns of Gnadenhutten, Schoenbrun, and Salem, on the Muskingum, and so much of the lands adjoining to the said towns, with the buildings and improvements thereon, shall be reserved for the sole use of the Christian Indians, who were formerly settled there, or the remains of that society, as may, in the judgment of the geographer, be sufficient for them to cultivate.

 

The United States military lands were surveyed under the pro. visions of an act of Congress of June 1,1796, and contained 2,560,000 acres. This tract was set apart to satisfy certain claims of the officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary war, hence the title by which it is known. It is bounded by the seven ranges on the east, by the Greenville treaty line on the north, by the Congress and refugee lands on the south, and by the Scioto River on the west, including the county of Coshocton entire, and portions of the counties of Tuscarawas, Guernsey, Muskingum, Licking, Franklin, Delaware, Marion, Morrow, Knox, and Holmes.

 

The Moravian lands [United Brethren] are three several tracts of 4,000 acres each, situated, respectively, at Shoenbrun, Gnadenhutten, and Salem, all on the Tuscarawas River, now in Tuscarawas county, Ohio. These lands were originally dedicated by an ordinance of Congress dated September 3, 1788, to the use of the Christianized Indians at those points, and by act of Congress of June 1, 1796, were surveyed and patents issued to. the Society of the United Brethren, for the purposes above specified.("History of Greene County", by R. S. Dills, Odell & Mayer, 1881, pp 138.)

 

During the period of this document, there were eight prominent tribes comprising the Ohio Territory:

 

  • The Chippewa and Ottawa came down from Ontario and the upper Great Lakes area.
  • The Delaware were from the New Jersey and Delaware region.
  • The Iroquis Tribe was made up of an alliance of six tribes; the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Onondaga, the Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora. They drove off most of the other tribes to obtain more hunting and trapping territory.
  • The Miamis, migrated from Wisconsin lived in the valleys by the Miami River.
  • The Mingos name was given to a group of Mohawks, Cayugas, and Caughnawagas; they lived in the Southeast Ohio Territory.
  • The Shawnees settled in the South, had migrated from Pennsylvania
  • The Wyandots, lived in the North West and originally came from Ontario.

The Delaware, Chippewa and Ottawa tribes could be found scattered throughout the Ohio country.

 

Of interest, just 3 years later, on February 24, 1798, a patent was issued to the Society for the tracts, but few Indians chose to live there. The Moravians also expended large sums on improvements. By March, 1823, Congress directed that arrangements should be made to purchase the title from the Indians.


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