The treaty of 1832, entered into October 20, 1832, with General John Coffee, and the whole Chickasaw Nation at the Council House, On Pontotoc Creek, provided, that a tract of land, including the graveyard near the town of Pontotoc, where many of the Chickasaws and their white friends are buried, and not exceed four acres in quantity, shall be and is hereby set apart and conveyed to the said town of Pontotoc to be held sacred for the purpose of public burial ground forever.
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