First Treaty of Buffalo Creek explained

The First Treaty of Buffalo Creek signed on July 8, 1788 Phelps and Gorham purchased title to lands east from the Genesee River in New York to the Preemption Line.^[1]

See also

• Treaty of Canandaigua
• Treaty of Big Tree
• Second Treaty of Buffalo Creek (1838)
• Third Treaty of Buffalo Creek (1842)
• Fourth Treaty of Buffalo Creek (1857)

References

• Laurence M. Hauptman, Conspiracy of Interests: Iroquois Dispossession and the Rise of New York State (2001).

Notes and References

1. McKeveley . Blake . January 1939 . Historic Aspects of the Phelps and Gorham Treaty of July 4–8, 1788 . Rochester History . 1 . 1 . Rochester Public Library . 0035-7413 . 2008-01-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071203025006/http://www.rochester.lib.ny.us/~rochhist/v1_1939/v1i1.pdf . 2007-12-03 . dead .