 A meeting to negotiate a treaty was scheduled for early September 1823 at Moultrie Creek, south of St. Augustine.About 425 Seminole attended the meeting, choosing "Neamathla" to be their chief representative or Speaker.Under the terms of the treaty negotiated there, the Seminole were forced to go under the protection of the United States and give up all claim to lands in Florida, in exchange for a reservation of about four million acres (16,000 km²).