Treaty of Detroit

The Treaty of Detroit was a treaty between the United States and the Ottawa, Chippewa, Wyandot and Potawatomi, All American Native American tribes in North America. The contract was signed in Detroit, Michigan on November 17, 1807 by the representatives of the respective strains and William Hull, governor of the Michigan Territory and superintendent of Indian affairs in, who represented the United States alone.

With this contract, the Indians ceded a large part of the country which now forms southeast Michigan and northwest Ohio. The border was the " mouth of the Miami River to the Lakes", which is better known today as the Maumee River in Toledo, Ohio. From then on, the boundary runs up to the middle of the river to the mouth of the Auglaize River, where today Defiance, Ohio is located, and then due north to latitude to that of the Lake Huron into the St. Clair River flows.

For the north- south border of the Michigan Meridian would be used, which was determined with the measurement of Michigan. The longitude is cut at the northeast corner of what today constitutes Sciota Township, Shiawassee County. From this point, the boundary runs north-east to the White Rock on Lake Huron and then due east to the international border with what is now Upper Canada. The international border following through the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair, the Detroit River and then into Lake Erie to a point which lies east of the mouth of the Maumee River. In the end, back west to the starting point.