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Topic: Treaty of Washington (1826)


  
  GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government
/A/ WHEREAS a treaty was concluded at the Indian Springs, on the twelfth day of February last, between Commissioners on the part of the United States, and a portion of the Creek Nation, by which an extensive district of country was ceded to the United States.
/D/ Immediately after the ratification of this Treaty, the United States agree to pay to the Chiefs of the said Nation the sum of two hundred and seventeen thousand six hundred dollars to be divided among the Chiefs and Warriors of the said Nation.
Fifteen thousand dollars of this sum to be paid immediately after the ratification of this treaty, and the residue upon their arrival in the country west of the Mississippi.
www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/creektre.htm/washing2.htm   (771 words)

  
 CALEB CUSHING - LoveToKnow Article on CALEB CUSHING   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
He graduated at Harvard in 1817, was tutor in mathematics there in 1820-1821, was admitted to practice in the court of common pleas in December 1821, and began the practice of law in Newburyport, Mass., in 1824.
In 1847, while again a representative in the state legislature, he introduced a bill appropriating money for the equipment of a regiment to serve in the Mexican War; although the bill was defeated, he raised the necessary funds privately, and served in Mexico first as colonel and afterwards as brigadier-general of volunteers.
(1826); Review of the late Revolution in France (1833); Reminiscences of Spain (1833); Oration on the Growth and Territorial Progress of the United States (1839); Life and Public Services of William H. Harrison (1840); and The Treaty of Washington (1873).
11.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CU/CUSHING_CALEB.htm   (535 words)

  
 March 4 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1778 - The Continental Congress voted to ratify both the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance with France.
The two treaties were the first entered into by the U.S. government.
1991 - The Soviet parliament in Moscow, Russia ratifies a six-nation treaty on German unification.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/March_4   (4600 words)

  
 Alabama - USA, Business,Govt,Community,Education,Real-Estate -WorldViewer !   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
With the Treaty of New York in 1790, McGillivray ceded a significant portion of Creek lands to the United States under the administration of George Washington in exchange for federal recognition of Creek sovereignty within the remaining territory.
On August 9, 1814, the Creek were forced to sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, which ended the conflict and required them to cede some 20 million acres (81,000 km²) of land - more than half of their ancestral territorial holdings - to the United States.
President John Quincy Adams was sympathetic, and eventually the treaty was nullified in a new agreement, the Treaty of Washington (1826).
www.alabamaus.com /wiki-Creek_people   (1618 words)

  
 Treaty With The Creeks - 1826
Immediately after the ratification of this Treaty, the United States agree to pay to the Chiefs of the said nation the sum of two hundred and seventeen thousand six hundred dollars to be divided among the Chiefs and Warriors of the said Nation.
This treaty, after the same has been ratified by the President and Senate, shall be obligatory on the United States and on the Creek Nation.
It is hereby agreed, in consideration of the extension of said lines, on the part of the other party to the Treaty aforesaid, in behalf of the United States, to pay to the Creek Nation, immediately upon the ratification of said Treaty, the sum of thirty thousand dollars.
www.firstpeople.us /FP-Html-Treaties/TreatyWithTheCreeks1826.html   (796 words)

  
 John Quincy Adams - Free Online Library
But just as he embarked that commission concluded the desired treaty of alliance, and soon after his arrival he advised that the number of commissioners be reduced to one.
Conditions were not then favourable for peace, however; the French government, moreover, did not approve of the choice, inasmuch as Adams was not sufficiently pliant and tractable and was from the first suspicious of Vergennes; and subsequently Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay and Henry Laurens were appointed to co-operate with Adams.
On the 4th of July 1826, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, he died at Quincy.
adams.thefreelibrary.com   (1496 words)

  
 United States Presidents and The Illuminati / Masonic Power Structure
Brother Washington became Worshipful Master on December 20, 1788, and was inaugurated President of the United States on April 30, 1789, thus becoming the first, and so far the only, Brother to be simultaneously President and Master of his Lodge.
Washington was a member of the Scottish rite, performed the 'Rite of the Mystic Tie' in a cave-complex near Winchester Virginia during the French and Indian war.
Washington, the Freemason who did not go into that Masonic Lodge that last 30 years of his life—in his own words—who was a Baptist and a Calvinist.
www.theforbiddenknowledge.com /hardtruth/uspresidentasmasons.htm   (4987 words)

  
 U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Origins & Development > Chronology
1826: Funeral services for Senator John Gaillard of South Carolina were held at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C., the first public payment of funeral expenses.
He returned two years later to deliver the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate.
Forty-five senators attended a world premiere of the film on October 17, held at Washington's Constitution Hall.
www.senate.gov /pagelayout/history/one_item_and_teasers/chronology.htm   (4247 words)

  
 Quotations that Support the Separation of State and Church
Washington's religious belief was that of the enlightenment: deism.
Washington recognized this, just as he recognized the tenacity of regional and economic interests, and he took pains to explain precisely what national unity meant to him.
Washington's understanding of the kind of integration appropriate to a modern state was not shared by the most powerful Protestant establishments, the New England Congregationalists and Presbyterians; but other religious groups could not have been more pleased....
www.infidels.org /library/modern/ed_buckner/quotations.html   (18630 words)

  
 GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government
Creek Treaties with the U.S. Treaty of New York, Aug. 7, 1790
Treaty of the Creek Agency, Jan. 22, 1818
Treaty of the Indian Spring, Jan. 8, 1821
www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/crtreaty.htm   (67 words)

  
 Major Ridge Stand Watie Elias Boudinot
[Major Ridge, Elias Boudinot, and the others signed the treaty in New Echota, Georgia, on 12/29/1835.
Letter to the National Intelligencer, Washington, July 27, 1840
George Washington Paschal's daughter from his 2nd marriage -
www.paulridenour.com /mrmain.htm   (632 words)

  
 Gold standard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Throughout the 1820s small notes were issued by regional banks, which were finally restricted in 1826, while the Bank of England was allowed to set up regional branches.
The US and the UK both instituted a variety of measures to control the movement of gold, and to reform the Banking system, but both were forced to suspend use of the Gold standard by the costs of the war.
The Treaty of Versailles instituted punitive reparations on Germany and the defeated Central Powers, and France hoped to use these to rebuild her shattered economy, as much of the War had been fought on French soil.
gold-standard.iqnaut.net   (6725 words)

  
 John Howell 's Genealogue
Manulak said he saw this web site and was developing a detailed research paper on the negotiation of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1948-1949, in which our Thomas Archibald Stone "played an integral role in Washington from July- September 1948." Mr.
In Washington, Stone was particularly well-connected having started his career there as a Third Secretary in 1927.
In the embassy in Washington, Stone was seen as indispensable to the point that Wrong sought to delay Stone's departure from Washington in the summer of 1949 (for an Ambassadorship in Sweden).
www.jhowell.com /blog   (2973 words)

  
 Thomas Jefferson - Third President of the United States
The exact site of the new Federal City was to be selected by Washington himself, and it was later named in his honor.
Upon arriving Monroe learned that Napoleon had offered to sell the entire Louisiana territory to the United States.
April 1803- The treaty transferring Louisiana to the United States was signed.
www.lewisandclarktrail.com /legacy/jefferson.htm   (290 words)

  
 Creek Indian Tribe - American Indian Nations
On August 9, 1814, the Creek were forced to sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, which ended the conflict and required the Creek to cede some 20 million acres (81,000 kmandsup2) of land - more than half of their ancestral territorial holdings - to the United States.
[2] (http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/naind/html/na_021800_mcintoshwill.htm) After the U.S. Senate ratified the treaty, McIntosh was assassinated (31 May 1825) by Creeks led by Menawa.
Opothle Yoholo appealed to the administration of President Andrew Jackson for protection from Alabama; when none was forthcoming, the Treaty of Cusseta was signed on 24 March 1832, which divided up Creek lands into individual allotments.
www.comanchelodge.com /nations/creek-tribe.html   (1552 words)

  
 Internet Modern History Sourcebook: American Independence
George Washington: Letter to John Hancock, September 24, 1776 [At American Revolution]
Exchange of Notes Re: Articles 2 and 3 of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce with France, February 6, 1778 [At Yale]
Statutes, treaties, cases, and presidential messages to Congress.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/modsbook12.html   (1590 words)

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