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Ohio intersects said line, then down the Miami to the forks of that river below the old fort taken by the French in 1752, thence due west to the river De-la-Panse; thence down that river to the Wabash, beyond which line none of the people or citizens of the United States shall settle or disturb the Shawanese in their settle-ment and possessions; and the Shawanese do relinquish to the United States all title they ever had to lands, east, west, and south, of the east, west, and south of lines before described. Signed by G. Clark, Richard Butler, Saml. H. Parsons, and eight Indians, and witnessed by a number of Indians and whites. The Indian witnesses were of the Delaware and Wyandot nations; Isaac Zane (a Wyandot), and the Crane of the Wyandots are among them. The first movement made by the Society of Friends of Baltimore Yearly Meeting for the benefit of the Indians, after the conclusion of the Revolutionary was, was commenced about one year subsequent to the treaty of Grenville; whereby a peace had been concluded between the United States and the hostile tribes, north-west of the river Ohio. For many years those Indians had proved themselves to be the for-midable enemies of the white emigrants who settled near them, and of the armies of the United States, sent out to compel them to sub-mit to the occupation of a territory which they continued to regard as their own property. Hav-