a peace, but I do not find from the Journal of
the Commissioners that any Friends attended.

The negotiation failed. The Indians insisted
upon the removal of the white settlements and
Forts from the country northwest of the Ohio,
which the Commissioners refused to accede to,
maintaining the claims of the United States to
certain portions of the country under treaties
from other tribes who were believed competent
to make title to it.

By the treaty of Greeneville

the Indians ce-
ded to the United States a tract of country com-
prising about twenty five thousand square miles,
or sixteen million acres, some of which however
was included in previous grants from other tribes.
They also ceded sixteen smaller tracts as sites
for Forts, trading stations, &c. They received
in consideration of the cession, twenty thousand
dollars in goods, and permanent annuities amount-
ing to eleven thousand dollars; $9,500 in goods
delivered, the cost of delivery and distribution
being $1,500. The annuities, at 5 percent re-
presents a capital of $220,000; thus the entire
payment would be $240,000 for 16,000,000
acres of land, or one cent and a half per acre.

The annuities of several of the tribes com-
menced at once, and are still paid regularly
under the treaty of Greeneville

, and they re-
ceive additional annuities under other treaties.
Indeed all the tribes who were parties to the
treaty of Greeneville, received regular annuities