Hoosier Dusty Files - September 30, 1809 - Amerindian Tribes and Harrison sign the The Ten O’clock Treaty

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September 30, 1809 - Amerindian Tribes and Harrison sign the The Ten O’clock Treaty
The Ten O’clock Line marked one boundary of land ceded by native tribes because of the 1809 Treaty of Fort Wayne. The treaty between the Delaware, Eel River, Miami, Potawatomi, Kickapoo and Wea tribes ceded nearly three million acres of land to the Americans. Indiana Governor William Henry Harrison negotiated the treaty, signed in Septembere 30 1809. The line received its name because the natives did not trust the surveying equipment of the Americans. According to lore, the natives stuck a spear in the ground and the line marked by the sun at 10:00 AM on September 30 became the boundary of the lands ceded.
The treaty ceded about 30,000,000 acres of southern Indiana land to the United States.
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