Treaty of Greenville

The Treaty of Greenville was a treaty of peace between the United States and the tribes called the Wyandots, Delawares, Shawanees, Ottawas, Chippewas, Pattawatimas, Miamis, Eel Rivers, Weas, Kickapoos, Piankeshaws and Kaskaskias, concluded on 3 August 1795 at Greenville, the headquarters of the army of Major General Anthony Wayne, who acted as sole commissioner for the United States. Its stated purpose was to end a destructive war, settle all controversies and restore harmony and friendly intercourse. In ten articles it ended hostilities and established perpetual peace, required all prisoners to be restored, with ten chiefs remaining at Greenville as hostages until American prisoners were delivered within ninety days, and fixed a general boundary line beginning at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. The tribes ceded all claims to lands east and south of that line and also ceded sixteen listed tracts, among them sites at Fort Wayne, Fort Defiance, Detroit, Michilimackinac and the mouth of the Chicago River, while allowing the United States free passage along a chain of portages and posts through their country.