HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN
INDIANS
THE PURCHASE OF GEORGIA
FROM THE CREEK INDIAN TRIBES
In the year 1826 a
treaty with the Chiefs of the Creek Nation , recently ratified by
the
Senate, secures, to the
State of Georgia close to three million acres on the east and
wes
t
sides of the
Chattahooche River, except a bit land by former treaty at
Indian Springs.
The United States has
agreed to pay $217,650.00 to the Creek Nation plus a perpetual
annuity of $20,000, thus
ending difficulties with the Creek's who are allowed two years
to
vacate former treaty land
east of the Chattahooche.
ABSTRACT: Thursday, May
11, 1826, The Wilmingtoian And Delaware
Advertizer.
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