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Treaty of Fort Industry

The boundary line between the United States, and the nations aforesaid, shall in future be a meridian line drawn north and south, through a boundary to be erected on the south shore of lake Erie, one hundred and twenty miles due west of the west boundary line of the state of Pennsylvania, extending north until it intersects the boundary line of the United States, and extending south it intersects a line heretofore established by the treaty of Grenville.

Treaty of Greenville Transcript, July 4, 1805. Read the rest of the treaty here. Courtesy of the Ohio History Connection.
A map of the various areas of Ohio that claimed under the Treaty of Fort Industry. Courtesy of Wikipedia, published 1899.

The Treaty of Fort Industry was one of many treaties signed between Indigenous people and the United States in the late 1700s and early 1800s, with the stated purpose of maintaining a friendly and protective relationship between the two groups. The treaty involved the Shawnee, Wyandotte (spelled in the document as Wyandot), Delaware, Ottawa, Chipawa, Munsee, and Pottawatima on July 4, 1805. The treaty moves the border line that was drawn with the Treaty of Greenville further west, and establishes a promise by the United States to pay the Shawnee, Delaware, and Munsee nations $1,000 US dollars annually, with some of this money coming from the United States government and some of this money coming from the Connecticut land company. The treaty also allows indigenous people to hunt and fish on the land that they gave up, so long as they “shall demean themselves peaceably” 1“Treaty of Fort Industry Transcript”, 1805 The American representative who signed the treaty was Charles Jouett, a federal agent for the United States government in Detroit who dealt in Indigenous affairs from 1802 to 1805. 2“Charles Jouett to Thomas Jefferson, 12 June 1815”

For further reading:

Treaty of Fort Industry Transcript, 1805”. Ohio History Central, https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Treaty_of_Fort_Industry_(1805)_(Transcript).

“Charles Jouett to Thomas Jefferson, 12 June 1815,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-08-02-0430