Martin Van Buren, President of the United States of America, to all and singular to whom these presents shall come, greeting : whereas a treaty was made and concluded at Fort Gibson, west of Arkansas, between Captain William Armstrong, acting superintendent Western Territory, and Brevet General Arbuckle, commissioners on the part of the United States, and the undersigned chiefs, being a full delegation of the Creek chiefs, duly authorized and empowered by their nation to adjust "their claims for property and improvements abandoned, or lost, in consequence of their emigration west of the Mississippi," on the twenty-third day of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight : which Treaty is in the words following ...
Published: (1839)