rels of Rum, in testimony of which, they have inscribed their marks; the old Wabisipine being blind, the Witnesses have made his mark for him.

The undersigned, having reclaimed the Right that they too had in the Portage, have likewise sold their claims, and guarantee from all disturbance. They have accepted for their share five Gallons of Rum, with which they are content and satisfied. In testimony of which, they have inscribed their marks.

Ratified at the Portage of Cacalin, the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred ninety-six. the 31st Day of July in One Thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven for a Share of the Portage one Barrel Rum.

In One Thousand seven hundred ninety-eight one Barrel Of Rum to satisfy the undersigned

and in Ninety-nine one Barrel of Rum to mix with [an illegible word] to settle The Quarrel between them

The same are content and satisfied.

LE TABAC NOIR

WACHITTE

WABESEPINE

of The eagle [signature illegible] J of the

D DUCHARME

BEAVER

Indorsed: "Recorded on Thursday the 18 December A. D. 1828 at 10 o'clock A. M. ROBERT IRWIN Jr Register" [Brown Co. Deeds, B: 110. 111.]

A CESSION TO JACOB FRANKS.

Know all Men by these presents that We the Undersigned Chiefs of the Falavoine' Nation of Indians acting for the Nation in general have Given, Granted and Confirmed, and by these presents do Give, Grant and Confirm unto Jacob Franks, his Heirs, Executors or Assigns and every of them, all our Title, Claim or demand on a Tinement or piece of land with all its Singular appurtances Containing Three Acres in front on One Hundred Acres in depth, situate at La Baye in Upper Canada bounded in front by the Riviere des Renards, on the North Side by a land Granted to Dominique Ducharme and on all othersides by Lands unconceded, for the Term of Nine hundred and Ninety Nine years, free and clear of all former or Gifts or Grants, Rents, Rent Charges, Titles, Troubles or incumbrances whatsoever, for value received.

1 Menomonees.- ED.

2 Franks was an English Jew, who had arrived in Green Bay this year (1794), to open a trading post in behalf of his employers, Ogilvie, Gillespie & Co., of Montreal. Cf. another version of this cession in Wis. Hist. Colls., x, pp. 90, 91.- ED.

In Witness Whereof we have hereunto in the presince of the Undersigned Witnesses, set our hands & Seals at LaBaye this Eighth day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred & Ninety four. Also a piece of land situate on l'other side of the Riviere Containing Nine Acres in front on one Hundred in depth, clear of all incumbrances as the above mintioned tiniment on l'other side of the River.

Before the justice of the peace at Green Bay, Indianna Territory, St Claire County, the Undersigned, Sr. Jean Bte. Lemoine, a Resident therein, was present for the purpose

1 Laurent Fily, a prominent Green Bay fur trader, frequently mentioned in Augustin Grignon's "Recollections," Wis. Hist. Colls., v.— Ed. 'Apparently one of Franks's employers.

3 Thomas Caron (Tomah, Carron, or Souligny) was then head chief of the Menomonees. The city of Tomah was named from him "Tomah " being the French pronunciation for Thomas.— ED.

of bargaining and Contracting with The Savage named Achoabenie, and his son Etouaikisique, and his Son-in-law Metcheshakie, the same wishing to have a house Built upon the north Side of the ohio River where they have been in the Cas de Brulé, not caring to live at the French settlement, and cultivating a Clearing for several years past. Desiring to Withdraw into this one Corner of land, they have Agreed and do agree to yield, quit, and transfer all their enclosed Clearing, which they have continually increased up to the present time, giving up all claims upon the products of their labors, All and singular. And be it Known that, to carry out the Agreement, the sd. Sr. jean Bte. Lemoine promises and binds himself to Hew the upright timbers for a thirty-feet house, with the joists that will be used with these timbers in [illegible word] of the Wolf, and to cut wood for the casing with the said Savages, and to put up the casing alone, that is, to clapboard the house-the said Lemoine not being bound to anything else regarding the chimney, or any chinking that the said Savages shall do or have done, or shall themselves perform, at their own pleasure. And the said Lemoine shall lay the rafters above, after having built the frame, and his Contract shall be finished, and from that moment the said Lemoine shall enter into possession of the said land of the said achoabenie and of his children generally, in the circuit of the Clearings that they may have made among them upon the lands that they possessed on the south side of the River ohio consisting of about ten arpents wide and perhaps more &. The said Lemoine has accordingly gone with the Savages, who have delivered to him their land, with which Lemoine has said that he is content and satisfied, after having seen and taken possession. And, without being obliged thereto, the sd. Lemoine consenting of his own free will, if the Savages desire and will furnish him the timber for their floor, the said Lemoine will lay it for them, the house as already mentioned thirty feet long by twenty-one wide, inside. Done and transacted at Green Bay this third of January, eighteen hundred seven,

at ten o'clock in the evening. The said Lemoine has declared that he could not sign his name, and has made his mark, with the undersigned, who has signed after hearing this paper read; and the Savages have also made their marks.

LANDS FOR STOCKBRIDGE AND BROTHERTOWN INDIANS.

Articles of agreement made [and] entered into at Vernon in the state of New York this 23d day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty three between Bartholomew Calvin Jonathan C. Johnston Stephen Calvin Jeremiah Johnston Charles Tanseye chiefs and head men of the Delware tribes of Indians formerly from the state of New Jersey of the one part & Solomon A Hendrick John W Quinny Austin Quinney Thomas F Hendrick Benjamin Palmer Francis Aaron & Sampson Auwohthommaug chiefs and head men of the Muhheconnuk Tribe commonly called the Stockbridge Indians of the other part 2 Witnesseth article first that the Muhheconunck

1 Reaume arrived in Green Bay in 1792, his former home having been the hamlet of La Prairie, opposite Montreal. For many years, both under English and American domination, he was the only civil officer in what is now Wisconsin. See numerous references to this picturesque character, in Wis. Hist. Colls., in Historic Green Bay, pp. 133-137, 150, 180, 181, and other Wisconsin histories.- ED.

2 In various volumes of Wis. Hist. Colls. may be traced the long and rather complicated story of the negotiations which led to the final establishment in Wisconsin, of the Oneidas, Stockbridges, Brothertowns, Munsees, etc. See also, the documents post, relative to the Stockbridge mission at Statesburg.-ED.