 | Charles Joseph Latrobe - United States - 1835 - 268 pages
...before we quitted Chicago on the 25th, three or four days later, the Treaty with the Pottawattomies was concluded,—the Commissioners putting their hands, and the assembled chiefs their paws to the same. By it, an apparently advantageous ' swop' was made for both parties;—the main conditions of which,... | |
 | Charles Joseph Latrobe - United States - 1835 - 266 pages
...before we quitted Chicago on the 25th, three or four days later, the Treaty with the Pottawattomies was concluded,—the Commissioners putting their hands, and the assembled chiefs their paws to the same. By it, an apparently advantageous ' swop' was made for both parties;—the main conditions of which,... | |
 | Charles Joseph Latrobe - United States - 1836 - 382 pages
...before we quitted Chicago on the 25th, three or four days later, the Treaty with the Pottawattomies was concluded,—the Commissioners putting their hands, and the assembled chiefs their paws to the same. By it, an apparently advantageous ' swop' was made for both parties ;—the main conditions of which,... | |
 | Henry Higgins Hurlbut - Chicago (Ill.) - 1881 - 708 pages
...before we quitted Chicago on the 25th, three or four days later, the Treaty with the Pottawatomies was concluded—the Commissioners putting their hands...and the assembled chiefs their paws to the same."* * We copy from a volume of Indian Treaties, an official publication, the fol-lowing Treaty; concluded... | |
 | Illinois State Historical Society - Illinois - 1916 - 842 pages
...before we quitted Chicago on the 25th, three or four days later, the Treaty with the Pottawattomies was concluded—the Commissioners putting their hands,...for this vast grant $100,000.00, "to satisfy sundry individuals in behalf of whom reservations were asked, which the commissioners refused to grant"; $175,000.00... | |
 | Illinois State Historical Society - Illinois - 1916 - 234 pages
...Chicago on the 25th, three or four days later, the treaty with the Pottawattamies was concluded— the commissioners putting their hands, and the assembled chiefs their paws to the same." That in the negotiation of this treaty there was more intrigue, and more attention to selfish interests... | |
 | Bessie Louise Pierce - History - 2004 - 573 pages
...before we quitted Chicago on the 25th, three or four days later, the Treaty with the Pottawattomies was concluded,—the Commissioners putting their hands, and the assembled chiefs their paws to the same. By it, an apparently advantageous 'swop' was made for both parties;—the main conditions of which,... | |
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was concluded—the commissioners putting their hands, and the assembled chiefs their paws, to the same." Thus, as so ably described by the English writer, was consummated the transfer by which Illinois ceased to be the land of the Indian. The Indians... 