At 10:40 PM 5/15/98 -0500, Randy Klemme wrote:
I have a question about something I noticed on the Butler
Township, Franklin County, Indiana, map, located at
http://www.fortunecity.com/millenium/rose/29/butler.jpg.
On this map, which is listed as the township where the Jones/Lanning and
Jones/Clawson cemeteries are located, there is a line called "Old Indian
Treaty Boundary." As I remember it, the line goes from southwest to
northwest across the map.
I didn't check a map just now, but I think you're referring to the Treaty
of Greenville of 1795. Did you mean southwest to northEAST? This is the
treaty that followed Gen. Anthony Wayne's defeat of various tribes at the
Battle of Fallen Timbers, near Toledo. It followed two unsuccessful
campaigns 2-3 years earlier, one by Gen. Harmar, who was defeated near Fort
Wayne, and one by Gen. St. Clair who suffered a major defeat on the Ohio
side, not that far north. Wayne's treaty opened up big portions of Ohio
for settlement, and a bit of Indiana, too. As for what Indians occupied
the Franklin county area, I don't have the relevant sources, but my best
guess would be Shawnee. The Miami and tribes related to them were further
north.
Then again, maybe not. One source I do have handy, after all, shows that
around 1768 Shawnees occupied land to the east of what became the treaty
line, and Miamis the land to the west. (Not that the treaty line was ever
a strict line of demarcation between tribes.) The book I have handy is the
"Atlas of Great lakes Indian History" edited by Helen Hornbeck Tanner.
Some of the maps include the Franklin County area, but not much detail is
given for the area that far south.
John Gorentz
John Gorentz