Indian Boundary Line With Other Countries In Pennsylvania
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This treaty was concluded on October 17, 1768, and drew a boundary line from the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers, to the headwaters of the Kanawha River, then south to Spanish East Florida. Johnson called the council in the north to be held at Fort Stanwix.
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The Second Treaty of Fort Stanwix (also called the Treaty with the Six Nations) came after the American Revolution, during which the powerful Iroquois had been considerably weakened by the American frontier campaign. The Iroquois reluctantly agreed to redraw their eastern boundaries established in 1768.
On November 5, 1768, representatives for the Mohawk, Oneida, Tuscarora, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca signed the Boundary Line Treaty on behalf of the Six Nations, Shawnee, Delaware, Mingo and other dependent tribes, and ceded interests in land east and south of the boundary to Great Britain.
The British and Cherokees met in Hard Labor, South Carolina, and signed the treaty on October 17, 1768. This established a new western border for British North America, along a line extending in part from present Wytheville, Virginia, to the mouth of the Kanawha River at Point Pleasant.
This treaty opened lands that would eventually become parts of western Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and northeast Tennessee, and the future states of Kentucky (1792) and West Virginia (1863) which seceded from Virginia during the American Civil War.
The Treaty of Easton was a colonial agreement in North America signed in October 1758 during the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War) between British colonials and the chiefs of 13 Native American nations, representing tribes of the Iroquois, Lenape (Delaware), and Shawnee.