In November of 1794, the Seneca signed the Pickering Treaty, also known as the Treaty of Canandaigua. This treaty restored some of the Seneca territory that had been lost in previous treaties, primarily the Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784). The Canandaigua Treaty established Seneca territory as west of a line going north and south at Canandaigua. All of what is now western New York State belonged to the Senecas, and according to the treaty: “Now, the United States acknowledge all the land within the aforementioned boundaries, to be the property of the Seneca nation; and the United States will never claim the same, nor disturb the Seneca nation, nor any of the Six Nations, or of their Indian friends residing theron, and united with them, in the free use and enjoyment thereof.”

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