treaty-stipulation

Updated: May 4, 2025

In the midst of this little cabin or saloon was placed the box containing my piano, and on it a mattress, which was to furnish us a divan through the day and a place of repose at night, should the weather at any time prove too wet or unpleasant for encamping. The boxes of silver, with which my husband was to pay the annuities due his red children, by treaty-stipulation, were stowed next.

Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie - Wau-bun: The Early Day in the Northwest