The Greenville Treaty Had Been Negotiated by Gen. Anthony Wayne Following the Battle of Fallen Timbers (August 20, 1794)

The Greenville Treaty had been negotiated by Gen. Anthony Wayne following the Battle of Fallen Timbers (August 20, 1794). The treaty was signed on August 3, 1795, by Wayne on behalf of the United States and by the leaders of twelve Indian tribes (Richard B. and Jeffrey B. Morris, eds., Encyclopedia of American History; Sixth ed. [New York and elsewhere: Harper & Row, 1982], 599). 4. This is a reference to the first session of the Third Indiana Territorial General Assembly. It met from November 12 until December 19, 1810 (Thornbrough, 345-46). 5. On August 21, 1805, WHH and leaders of the Delawares and four other tribes signed a treaty at "Grouseland," WHH's home, which was located a short distance north of Vincennes (see above). The land obtained as a result of this treaty signing was located in the southeastern part of the Indiana Territory, touching the Greenville Treaty line on the east (see footnote 3) and the Ohio River on the south (John D. Barnhart and Dorothy L. Riker, Indiana to 1816: The Colonial Period [Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau and Indiana Historical Society, 1971], 377).

6. See Article 2 of the treaty signed by WHH and leaders of four Indian tribes in Fort Wayne on September 30, 1809, printed above. 7. This was an expression that was often used to describe the tribes of the Iroquois confederacy, which first rose to prominence in the 1640s in an area "between Lake Champlain and the eastern tip of Lake Erie." Initially, the confederation was composed of five tribes: "the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca." Later, the Tuscarora tribe migrated from North Carolina to upstate New York and became the sixth member of the