1Enclosure: Extracts from the Report of the Governor of the Territory of the United States North-west of the Ohio., 17 … (Washington Papers)
A. “Among the claims for land that have been rejected, there are several that are founded on purchases made from individual indians, and the conveyances set forth that they were inherited from their parents, and were not the property of the Nation. It could not however be discovered that any division of the lands of the Kaskaskia indians had ever taken place among themselves, and the Chief of...