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TREATY WITH THE CHOCTAW – (Treaty of Hoe Buckintoopa) To whom these
presents shall come, KNOW YE, That the
undersigned, commissioners plenipotentiary of the United States of America, of
the one part, and of the whole Choctaw nation of the other part, being duly authorised by the President of the United States, and by
the chiefs and headmen of the said nation, do hereby establish in conformity to
the convention of Fort Confederation, for the line of demarkation
recognized in the said convention, the following metes and bounds, viz:: Beginning in the channel of the Hatchee
Comesa, or Wax river, at the point where the line of
limits, between the United States and Spain crosseth
the same, thence up the channel of said river to the confluence of the
Chickasaw-Hay and Buck-hatannee rivers, thence up the
channel of the Buckhatannee to Bogue
Hooma or Red creek, thence up the said creek to a
Pine tree standing on the left bank of the same, and blazed on two of its
sides, about twelve links southwest of an old trading path, leading from the
town of Mobile to the Hewnnee towns, much worn, but
not in use at the present time :From this tree we find the following bearings
and distances, viz:: south fifty four degrees thirty
minutes, west, one chain, one link a black gum, north thirty nine degrees east
one chain seventy five links to a water oak; thence with the old British line
of partition in its various inflections, to a Mulberry post, planted on the
right bank of the main branch of Sintee Bogue or Snake creek, where it makes a sharp turn to the
south east, a large broken top Cypress-tree standing near the opposite bank of
the creek, which is about three poles wide, thence down the said creek to the Tombigby river, thence down the Tombigby
and Mobile rivers, to the above mentioned line of limits between the United
States and Spain, and with the same to the point of beginning: And we, the said
commissioners plenipotentiary, do ratify and confirm the said line of
demarcation, and do recognise and acknowledge the
same to be the boundary which shall separate and distinguish the land ceded to
the United States, between the Tombigby, Mobile and Pascagola rivers, from that which has not been ceded by the
said Choctaw nation. In testimony
whereof, we hereunto affix our hands and seals, this thirty-first day of
August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three, to
triplicates of this tenor and date. Done at Hoe-Buckin-too-pa, the day and year above written, and in the
twenty-seventh year of the independence of the James Wilkinson, Mingo Pooscoos, his x mark, Alatala
Hooma, his x mark, Witnesses present: Young Gains, interpreter, John Bowyet, captain Second United States Joseph Chambers, We the commissioners
of the Choctaw nation duly appointed and the chiefs of the said nation who
reside on the Tombigby river, next to Sintee Bogue, do acknowledge to
have received from the United States of America, by the hands of Brigadier
General James Wilkinson, as a consideration in full for the confirmation of
the above concession, the following articles, viz:
fifteen pieces of strouds, three rifles, one hundred
and fifty blankets, two hundred and fifty pounds of powder, two hundred and
fifty pounds of lead, one bridle, one man's saddle, and one black silk
handkerchief. Mingo Pooscoos, his x mark, Alatala Hooma,
his x mark, Commissioners of the Choctaw nation. Pio Mingo, his x mark, Pasa Mastubby
Mingo, his x mark, Tappena Oakchin,
his x mark, Tuskenung Cooche,
his x mark, Cussoonuckchia, his x mark, Pushapia, his x mark, Chiefs residing on the Witnesses present: Young Gains, interpreter, John Bowyer, Captain Second United States Joseph Chambers, |