The United States sent a team of diplomats including George Rogers Clark, Richard Butler, and Arthur Lee to negotiate a new treaty.
In January 1785, the representatives of the two sides met at Fort McIntosh at the confluence of the Ohio and Beaver Rivers in Western Pennsylvania.
Most of the Native Americans who signed the treaty were not actually given authority by their nations to make negotiations, which is why later chiefs questioned and doubted the legality and moral authority of the land give-away agreements..[1] The state of Connecticut's (Western Reserve strip of territory in the northeast of Ohio, near Lake Erie) and the Commonwealth of Virginia's (Military District in the central south of Ohio), both states of the Original Thirteen Colonies on the East Coast had residual territorial land claims in the Ohio Country and would have to be distinguished from the other Indian Country.
Thiis area comprised about 1/3 of the modern day state of Ohio in the northwest, and a wedge of eastern Indiana extending to Kekionga (future Fort Wayne).
The tribes also ceded areas surrounding Forts Shelby and Detroit and Fort Michilimackinac to the far north in the Great Lakes, between Lake Superior, Huron and Michigan, to the United States and also searched for and gave back white captives taken in earlier raids along the frontier.