Land Cessions in Illinois:

Name: Treaty with the Delaware, Potawatomi, Miami, and Kickapoo Tribes of Indians

Date: September 30, 1809; Kickapoo representatives signed on December 9, 1809

Location and Extent:

all that tract of country which shall be included between the boundary line established by the treaty of Fort Wayne, the Wabash, and a line to be drawn from the mouth of a creek called Racoon Creek, emptying into the Wabash, on the south-east side, about twelve miles below the mouth of the Vermilion river, so as to strike the boundary line established by the treaty of Grouseland, at such a distance from its commencement at the north-east corner of the Vincennes tract, as will leave the tract now ceded thirty miles wide at the narrowest place. And also all that tract which shall be included between the following boundaries, viz: beginning at Fort Recovery, thence southwardly along the general boundary line, established by the treaty of Greenville, to its intersection with the boundary line established by the treaty of Grouseland; thence along said line to a point from which a line drawn parallel to the first mentioned line will be twelve miles distant from the same, and along the said parallel line to its intersection with a line to be drawn from Fort Recovery, parallel to the line established by the said treaty of Grouseland.

Modern Counties Affected:

Crawford, Clark, Edgar

Compensation:

• $500 per year to the Delawares
• $500 per year to the Miamis
• $250 per year to the Eel River Tribe
• $500 per year to the Potawatomies

All annuities were to be permanent and ongoing.

Participants:

"the United States of America, and the tribes of Indians called the Delawares, Putawatimies, Miamies and Eel River Miamies"

Commentary:

Only a small portion of the ceded lands were actually in Illinois.