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| Grass River. Akwesasne |
The Gassy Meadows along Grass River is one of the areas I will be covering in my book, Indian Land Title in New York, (to be published later this year by The History Press). Below s an excerpt.
TREATY WITH THE ST. REGIS 1845 – GRASSY MEADOWS
Whereas by the act
entitled "An Act in relation to certain tribes of Indians " passed
May 25, 1811 the Commissioners of the Land Office are authorized to
make such treaties contracts and arrangements with any tribe or Nation
of Indians or with any parry or portion of them or with any
Individual Indian or Indians who have any claim upon any lands in this
State for the purchase of any portion of such lands as the said Commissioners may deem just and proper: And Whereas the said St. Regis
Indians own certain lands in the County of St. Lawrence known and
distinguished as the Indian Meadows or Grass River, on both sides
of the said river or as Islands in the said river, which meadows were
reserved in and by the Treaty made with the
said Indians on the 31st day of May 1796 ....
... . It appearing by a map made by Amos Lay in the year 1801 now on file in the Surveyor Generals Office that the said Indian Meadows and Islands contain in the whole the quantity of Two hundred and ten acres and four tenths of an acre: It is therefore agreed that the sum of four hundred dollars be now paid to the said Indians and when the Survey aforesaid shall be made and returned to the Surveyor General the remainder of the consideration money at the rate aforesaid shall be paid to them in full. ...
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