Arthur St. Clair Report to Thomas Jefferson

              Mr Jefferson 
Phila March 19 th[superscript] 1790 
Sir 
By the Treaty of Fort Mc Intosh the lands 
contained within the following Boundary were attached - 
to the Wyandots & Delawares, and the [written above] Ottawas who were in actual 
Occupation; very beginning at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River 
and running up the same to the portage between that and 
the Tuscawaras branch of Muskingham; then down that 
Branch to the Forks at the [illegible]place above Fort Lawrence; 
thence westerly to the portage on that branch of the big 
Miami which runs into the Ohio, at the mouth of which 
branch the fort stood which was taken by the French in 
1752; thence along the said Portage to the great Miami 
or Omie River, and down the southeast side of the 
same to its mouth; thence along the south shore of lake 
Erie to the mouth of Cuyahoga it seems to have been 
assumed as a principle that the whole of the Country 
was the property of the united States, and, by that 
Treaty, they gave to the Indians the land [illegible] _ 
contained [carrot mark] and the lands lying East West & south were relinquished to the [written above carrot mark] united states [written below carrot mark] there are also certain reservations within 
those boundaries, which are declared to be to the [illegible] 
under the government of the United States _ but by the 7th 
article the general principle seems to have been departed 
from and the country west and north west of the Miami 
of the lakes considered as the property of the Indians the [crossed out] 
exception [crossed out] By the Treaty oat Muskinghhum the same Bounda 
ries were confirmed with a small variation, which as I 
have not the Treaty by me, I cannot point out, and [illegible] 
lands laying without the Boundaries were sold and _ 
confirmed to the united States; at the same time as [illegible] 
declaration was made by the Wyandots that the country to - 
the