Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1910 — MEMORIAL OF HISTORIC TREATY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MEMORIAL OF HISTORIC TREATY

BLOOMINGTON, Ill.—The citizens of Edgar county, Illinois, have erected and soon will unveil a monument to mark the spot on which was made one of the most important of American treaties, that made with Chief Pontiac of the Ottawas in 1765. By this agreement the Indians transferred their allegiance from the French to the English and the latter acquired the vast territory that stretched from New York westward along the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi to its mouth. The making of the treaty thus was one of the most momentous events In American colonial history. *