Deep within Paw Paw Grove, or As-Sim-In-Eh-Kon, Potawatomi Chief Waubonsie and his tribe lived from 1824 to 1836. At the Treaty of Prairie Du Chien in 1829, Madeline Ogee, Potawatomi wife of Joseph Ogee, received two sections of land in the grove. During the Black Hawk War, Potawatomi, Chippewa, and Ottawa chiefs including Waubonsie, Shabbona, and Sauganash, also known as Billy Caldwell, aided the U.S. Government. At the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, the Three Fires Confederation ceded approximately 5 million acres of land in northwest Illinois to the government. In 1836, the Indians were removed from their homes to northwest Missouri and southwest Iowa, and the Ogee section was sold to David Town for $1000 in silver.