Land Cessions in Illinois:

Name: Treaty with the Wea and Kickapoo Tribes of Indians

Date: June 4, 1816

Location and Extent:

[A]ll that tract of country which lies between the aforesaid boundary line on the north west side of the Wabash—the Wabash, the Vermillion river, and a line to be drawn from the north west corner of the said boundary line, so as to strike the Vermillion river twenty miles in a direct line from its mouth

Modern Counties Affected:

Vermillion

Compensation:

• "Peace and friendship" with the United States

Participants:

"Benjamin Parke, specially authorized thereto by the president of the United States, ...and the tribes of Indians called the Weas and Kickapoos"

Commentary:

Only a small portion of the land ceded by this treaty was part of Illinois.