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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