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The Great Treaty of 1722 was a document signed in Albany, New York by leaders of the Five Nations of Iroquois, Province of New York, Colony of Virginia, and Province of Pennsylvania. Also known as the Treaty of Albany, it was made to create a boundary and keep the peace between English settlers and the Iroquois nations.
Nanfan Treaty at Wikisource Deed from the Five Nations to the King, of their Beaver Hunting Ground , more commonly known as the Nanfan Treaty , was an agreement made between representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy with John Nanfan , the acting colonial governor of New York, on behalf of The Crown .
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Map of Albany in 1758. During the French and Indian War, Albany was the target of several French plans to cut the British colonies in half. Albany was also the point in which British and colonial troops were assembled, and where several invasions of French Canada, and specifically Montreal, were planned. By 1756, 10,000 soldiers were drilling ...
August 7 Treaty of New York: Treaty with the Creek 7 Stat. 35: 7 Creek: 1791 March 3 Act of Congress 1 Stat. 221: Piankeshaw, Kaskaskia: 1791 July 2 Treaty of Holston: Treaty with the Cherokee 7 Stat. 39: 8 Cherokee: 1792 February 17 Treaty of Philadelphia: Additional article to the Treaty with the Cherokee 7 Stat. 42: Cherokee: 1792 April 23
A map of the Six Nations land cessions. The Six Nations land cessions were a series of land cessions by the Haudenosaunee and Lenape which ceded large amounts of land, including both recently conquered territories acquired from other indigenous peoples in the Beaver Wars, and ancestral lands to the Thirteen Colonies and the United States.
Seven Nations relinquish all claims in New York outside of two reservations [27] Treaty of Albany: March 29, 1797 Albany, New York: Mohawk: Mohawks cede to New York all claims in New York [28] Treaty of Big Tree: Sept. 15, 1797 Genesee, New York: Seneca: Senecas sell Morris Reserve, minus twelve reservations [29] Treaty of Buffalo Creek (I ...
The sketch map of 1768 is ambiguous and its geometry is very poor, but it seems to favor the second interpretation. It seems to show a section of the West Branch between what is labeled the Tiadaghton (Pine Creek) and the stream actually followed by the line somewhat to the east; this would appear to be Lycoming Creek.