[undecipherable] At a Treaty held with the Oneida Nation or Tribe of Indians, at their Village in the State of New York, on the first day of June in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, Present Joseph Hopkinson, Commissioner appointed under the authority of the United States to hold the Treaty; Egbert Benson, Ezra S. Hommedieu and John Taylor, Agents for the State of New-York. The said Indians having in the month of March last, proposed to the Governor of the said State to cede the lands hereinafter described for the compensation hereinafter mentioned, and the said Governor having acceded to the said proposal, and advanced to the said Indians at their desire in part payment of the said compensation, three hundred dollars to answer their then immediate occasions, the said cession is thereupon, in the presence and with the approbation of the said Commissioner carried into effect at this Treaty, which hath, on the request of the said Governor been appointed to be held for the purpose, as follows, that is to say: — The said Indians do cede, release and quit claim to the People of the State of New-York for ever all the lands on their Reservation to the westward and south-westward of a line from the north-easter corner of Lot N^o 54 in the last purchase from them, running northerly to a butter-wood tree marked on the east side "Oneida R 1798," on the west side IPS 1798, and on the south side with three notches and a blaze, standing on the bank of the Oneida Lake in the southern part of a bay called Newsagehkoe. Also a mile on each side of the main Genesee road for the distance of one mile and an half westward to commence at the eastern boundary of their said Reservation. And also the same breadth for the distance of three miles on the south side and of one mile on the north side of the said road eastward, to commence at the eastern boundary of the said lot N^o 54. Provided and [underline: excepted] nevertheless, that the following Indian families, viz. Josiah Dockstader, Cornelius Dockstader, Jacob Dockstader, Lewis Denny, John Denny, Jon. Jost and Nicholas, shall be suffered to possess of the tract as forth above mentioned the grounds cultivated by them respectively and their improvements not exceeding fifty acres to each family as long as they shall reside there — and in consideration of this proviso and exception, the said Indians do further cede that a tract of twelve hundred and eighty acres, as follows, that is to say: Beginning at the south-east corner of Lot N^o 59 in the said last purchase and running thence east one mile, thence north two miles, thence west one mile, and thence south two miles, shall be considered as set apart by the said Nation or Tribe for the use of the said families whenever they shall remove from where they now reside. The said agents do for the people of the said State pay to the said Indians in addition to the said sum of three hundred dollars already advanced to them as abovementioned the further sum of two hundred dollars, and do grant to the said Indians that the people of the said State shall pay to the said Indians at their said Village on the first day of June next and on the first day of June yearly thereafter the annual sum of seven hundred dollars. In Testimony whereof the said Commissioner, the said Agents and the said Indians have hereunto and to other acts of the same tenor and date, the one to remain with the United States, another to remain with the State of New York and another to remain with the said Indians set their hands and [undecipherable]