The Treaty of Payne's Landing was an agreement signed on 9 May 1832 between the government of the United States and several chiefs of the Seminole. It was made at Payne's Landing on the Ocklawaha River in the present-day state of Florida, and was signed by 16 chiefs, a fraction of the total. The treaty required that the over 4000 Seminole leave Florida for Indian Territory within three years, where they would be given a share of land and reimbursed for lost belongings. The government added a verbal amendment that all Seminoles with any African ancestry, such as the Black Seminoles, must stay behind and be sold into slavery. When the United States Army came to Florida in 1835 to enforce the terms of the treaty, the chiefs, including some who had signed the treaty, refused to leave, setting the stage for the Second Seminole War (1835-1842), one of the most intense of the Indian Wars.

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• Treaty of Payne's Landing original text from johnhorse.com

United States and Native American treaties | Seminole tribe | History of Florida