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William Hull, Governor of the Michigan Territory, negotiated this treaty with the Ottawa, Potawatomi, Chippewa, and Wyandot Indians of southeast Michigan. The boundary of the ceded lands began at Fort Defiance, Ohio, went due north until reaching a latitude parallel with the mouth of the St. Clair River; from there, northeast to White Rock in Lake Huron, a well-known landmark among Native Americans; from White Rock, south along the coastline to the Maumee River; then up the river back to Fort Defiance. Since this area includes the Treaty of Greenville cession, both are designated RA#66 in the Royce Area numbering system.
When the Wyandots of Maguaga and Brownstown complained that their settlements were omitted from the reservations of the 1807 Treaty of Detroit, the U.S. Congress passed a law on February 28, 1809 granting them two reservations. They were to coincide with the villages of Maguaga and Brownstown, not to exceed five thousand acres combined. The grant was to expire after fifty years.
It's interesting to note that Brownstown's village chief Adam Brown applied for title to two tracts of land land encompassing his village as private claims in 1808. They were granted to him the following year as Private Claims No. 354 & 355. Brown's adopted son, William Walker, applied for title to two adjacent claims and likewise received them (PC No. 54 in 1807, and PC No. 345 in 1809).
According to one story, Adam Brown is the namesake of the area. At the age of 8, as the story goes, he was kidnapped by the Wyandot Indians in Virginia. The young captive grew to manhood among the Wyandots, married a native woman and, according to the history books, led a highly respected life. As an important Wyandot tribal elder, Adam Brown signed several treaties with the American government. Siding with the British in the War of 1812 Adam Brown moved to Amherstburg, Ont. after the the British defeat. Canadian church records show that Adam Brown died in September of 1827 in Windsor Ont. and is buried in a churchyard of that city.
The region now known as Brownstown was, like surrounding areas in Michigan, once a part of the French Province Quebec. The area eventually fell into hands of British and finally came under American rule in the 18th Century. What may not be realized at first glance, however, is that the community is 10 years older than the state of Michigan: The original 43-square-mile block of land south of Detroit was designated a township - one of the nine original townships formed in Wayne County - by the Michigan Territorial Commission in 1827.
The township was named "Brown's Town" after Chief Adam Brown. Adam Brown was a white, eight year old boy who was taken captive from Virginia along with his brother (Samuel) and another boy from the Carpenter family. An account of this event was recorded by A.S. Withers in “Chronicles of Border Warfare” . Brown took an Indian wife and grew to manhood as a member of the Wyandot Indians, eventually becoming a tribal leader of the Deer Clan of the Wyandot Tribe. (Adam Brown's Wyandot name was Ta-haw-na-haw-wie-te) His village was called “Brown’s Town” it was located along the banks of Brownstown Creek at Gibraltar Road. When the Township was formed in 1827 it was given the name Brownstown Township.
Native Americans including the Wyandot (Huron), Chippewa, Pottawatomie and Ottawa are known to have held important tribal councils along the banks of the Detroit and Huron Rivers during the years of 1788 and 1806. The Treaty of Brownstown was signed by Governor Hull on November 7, 1807 and provided the Indian Nations with a payment of $10,000 in goods and money along with an annual payment of $2,400 in exchange for an area of land that included the southeastern one-quarter of the lower peninsula of Michigan.
In the War of 1812 the Wyandot tribe allied itself with the British and the famous Shawnee warrior, Tecumseh. With the defeat of the British forces and the death of Tecumseh at the Battle of the Thames; Adam Brown and his family moved to Amherstburg Canada. Adam Brown died in 1823 in Anderdon Township, Ontario, Canada.
This treaty with the Wyandots, signed September 20, 1818, terminated the reservations at Brownstown (RA#95) and Maguaga (RA#96). In exchange, the U.S. granted the tribe a 4,996 acre reservation in the southeast corner of Huron Township on the Huron River. This reservation is within the boundaries of Oakwoods Metropark. It was occupied from 1818 to 1842.
Detroit Urbanism: Indian Villages, Reservations, and Removal
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