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    The Treaty of Big Tree was a formal treaty signed in 1797 between the Seneca Nation and the United States, in which the Seneca relinquished their rights...
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    Holland Land Company (category Pre-statehood history of New York (state))
    at the 1797 Treaty of Big Tree, executed on the Genesee River near modern-day Geneseo, south of Rochester, New York. Representatives of the Holland Land...
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  • Look up big tree or big trees in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Big Tree may refer to: Tree § Superlative trees, for big trees in general Big Tree (Washington...
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    William Wadsworth (officer) (category War of 1812 prisoners of war held by the United Kingdom)
    delegation for the Treaty of Big Tree in his log cabin and new cobblestone house. A meadow between the Wadsworths' cabin at Big Tree and the gigantic oak...
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    State east of the Genesee River 1797 Treaty of Big Tree with the Iroquois for lands in New York State west of the Genesee River The Treaty of Fort Stanwix...
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  • Treaty of Big Tree First Treaty of Buffalo Creek (1788) Third Treaty of Buffalo Creek (1842) Fourth Treaty of Buffalo Creek (1857) List of treaties Fellows...
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  • Little Beard (category People of the Sullivan Expedition)
    also a signatory to the Treaty of Big Tree in 1797 that opened up Western New York for settlement. He died as the result of injuries received during...
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    Kanawha River (category Rivers of West Virginia)
    Kanawha Falls. The Treaty of Big Tree between the Seneca nation and the United States established ten reservations. This formal treaty was signed on September...
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    The Treaty of Canandaigua (or Konondaigua, as spelled in the treaty itself), also known as the Pickering Treaty and the Calico Treaty, is a treaty signed...
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  • Seneca people (category Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands)
    A history of the treaty of Big Tree : and an account of the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the making of the treaty, held at Geneseo...
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  • Canawaugus, New York (category Native American history of New York (state))
    Sullivan Expedition of 1779.: p.166  Canawaugus was one of the 11 reservations retained by the Seneca tribe in the Treaty of Big Tree in 1797. It sold the...
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    Mary Jemison (category American people of Scotch-Irish descent)
    the Treaty of Big Tree (1797). Late in life, Jemison told her story to the minister James E. Seaver, who published it as Narrative of the Life of Mrs...
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    The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919. As the most important treaty of World War I, it ended the state of war between Germany...
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  • Little Beard's Town (category Geography of Livingston County, New York)
    the war." The site was reserved as a Seneca reservation in the 1797 Treaty of Big Tree, along with five other parcels on the Genesee River; they sold those...
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  • after the American Revolution. He was a signatory of the Treaty of Big Tree in 1797, and the Treaty of Buffalo Creek in 1802 which sold Little Beard's reservation...
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  • The following is a list of individual trees. Trees listed here are regarded as important or specific by their historical, national, locational, natural...
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    Tonawanda Reservation (category Geography of Niagara County, New York)
    Canandaigua Treaty of 1794 and the Treaty of Big Tree in 1797 which led to the reservations in western New York, which are only a fraction of their original...
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    Genesee River (category Rivers of New York (state))
    owners from the Holland Land office in Batavia, New York. In the 1797 Treaty of Big Tree, the Seneca tribes were granted six reservations along the river,...
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    Buffalo Creek Reservation (category Geography of Buffalo, New York)
    allies of the defeated British, the US forced them to cede most of their territory. By the Treaty of Big Tree in 1797, the Seneca relinquished all of Western...
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    Treaty of Big Tree between Robert Morris and the Senecas at the site of Geneseo in 1797. Geneseo, as well as nearby Mount Morris, was part of the Morris...
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    known as the Treaty of Tudején. Also known as the Treaty of Winchester or the Treaty of Westminster. Also known as the First Treaty of Constance. Also...
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    Phelps and Gorham Purchase (category Former regions and territories of the United States)
    settlement of Allegany and Genesee counties by founding the village of Angelica, New York. As noted above, in September 1797 under the Treaty of Big Tree, negotiated...
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    By the end of the 18th century, only 338 sq mi (216,000 acres; 880 km2; 88,000 ha) of reservations remained. After the Treaty of Big Tree removed Iroquois...
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    Willem Willink (category History of Buffalo, New York)
    and Aurora). Some of the investor names appear on the Treaty of Big Tree, by which the Iroquois sold off their rights to most of the land in the Holland...
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    Oil Springs Reservation (category Seneca Nation of New York)
    negotiations of the Treaty of Big Tree, testified in court that he and Joseph Ellicott had surveyed the Oil Spring lands and that omission of the lands from...
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    liquor and trinkets given to the women. He acquiesced and signed the Treaty of Big Tree, in which the tribe sold their rights to the land (except for a small...
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    Cornplanter (category Native American people of the Indian Wars)
    and affirmed their land rights in the state of New York. Three years later he signed the Treaty of Big Tree that established Seneca reservations within...
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  • Captain Pollard (category Indigenous people of the War of 1812)
    at Buffalo Creek Reservation. Samson, W. H. (1892). "The Treaty of Big Tree". Annual Meeting of the Livingston County Historical Society. pp. 13–14. This...
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  • served as interpreter at the negotiations for the Treaty of Canandaigua in 1794 and the Treaty of Big Tree in 1797. In 1784 Jones married Sarah Whitmoyer...
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    Sullivan Expedition (category Campaigns of the American Revolutionary War)
    of the Iroquois within their lands. The 1797 Treaty of Big Tree saw the Seneca relinquish their rights to most of their remaining territory west of the...
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