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On the recordJanuary 29, 1808
By a treaty signed at Pooshapuckanuck on the 16th of November, 1805, they accordingly ceded all their lands south of a line to be run from their and our boundary at the Omochita eastwardly to their boundary with the Creeks.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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