A boundary line between United States territory and Indian lands existed here for fourteen years. At St. Mary's, Ohio, on October 2, 1818, Jonathan Jennings, Lewis Cass, and Benjamin Parke, commissioners of the United States, and 35 sachems, chiefs, and warriors of the Potawatomie Tribe of Indians concluded a treaty ceding territory beginning at the mouth of the Tippecanoe River, running up that river to a point twenty five miles in a direct line from the Wabash River, then on a line as nearly parallel to the general course of the Wabash River as practicable to a point on the Vermilion River twenty five miles from the Wabash, then down the Vermilion to its mouth and up the Wabash to the place of beginning. In return, the United States agreed to pay the Potawatomies a perpetual annuity of $2,500.00 in silver. This line was erased by another treaty made at Chippewaynung, where the Tippecanoe River crosses the Michigan Road two miles north of Rochester, Indiana, on October 26, 1832. There Jonathan Jennings, John W. Davis, and Marks Crume, commissioners of the United States, and 48 chiefs, headmen, and warriors of the Potawatomie Indians ceded all lands between this line and the Indiana-Illinois state line, Lake Michigan, and the Indiana-Michigan state line to the United States. In return, the United States agreed to pay $20,000.00 annually for 20 years, provide goods worth $100,000.00 in 1832 and $30,000.00 in 1833, pay Indian debts of $62,412.00, assist in emigrating, and build a sawmill.