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139.April 4, 1804.

140.October 10, 1804. See letter of Daniel Smith to Secretary of War, October 31, 1804.

141.October 31, 1804.

142.Commissioner Smith in his letter of October 31, 1804, to the Secretary of War, states that two persons on the part of the United States, to be accompanied by two Cherokee chiefs, had been designated to run the boundaries of this cession. The propriety was then urged on the Cherokees by the commissioners of making a cession of the lands lying between East and West Tennessee. Several days were consumed in urging this proposal, and a majority of the chiefs were probably in favor of it, but Commissioner Smith remarks that a majority, unless it amounts almost to unanimity, is not considered with them sufficient to determine in matters of great interest, particularly in making cessions of lands.

143.December 20, 1811.

144.It is stated in a resolution of the Georgia legislature, passed June 16, 1802, that this line was surveyed by Colonel Hawkins in 1798.

145.The letter of the Cherokee delegation calling attention to this matter is dated January 19, 1824.

146.February 6, 1824.

147.April 15, 1824.

148.April 30,1824.

149.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 228.

150.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 93.

151.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 95.

152.November 2, 1805. See letter of transmittal of Return J. Meigs and Daniel Smith.

153.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, pp. 93 and 95.

154.January 10, 1806.

155.See field notes of Colonel Martin on file in office of Indian Affairs.

156.Letter of R. J. Meigs to Secretary of War, March 4, 1811.

157.Letter of Meigs and Smith to Secretary of War, January 10, 1806.

158.See report of Commissioner Indian Affairs to Secretary of War, December 9, 1834.

159.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 101.

160.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 103.

161.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 101.

162.May, 1807.

163.Message of President Jefferson to U. S. Senate, March 29, 1808, and letter of R. J. Meigs, September 28, 1807. American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 753.

164.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII.

165.President Jefferson to U.S. Senate, March 29, 1808. American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 753.

166.February 21, 1806. Indian Office records.

167.On the return home of the Cherokee delegation that visited Washington in 1801, "The Glass," a noted Cherokee chief, represented to his people that the Secretary of War had said, "One Joseph Martin has a claim on the Long Island of Holston River." This the Secretary of War denied, in a letter dated November 20, 1801, to Col. R.J. Meigs.

168.April 1. Indian Office records.

169.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 103.

170.Letter of Return J. Meigs to Secretary of War, September 28, 1807, in which he says: "With respect to the chiefs who have transacted the business with us, they will have their hands full to satisfy the ignorant, the obstinate, and the cunning of some of their own people, for which they well deserve this silent consideration."

171.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 138.

172.Two treaties appear of the same date and negotiated by the same parties. It is to be noted that the first controls a cession to the State of South Carolina and the second defines certain other concessions to the United States.

173.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 139.

174.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, pp. 138 and 139.

175.February 28, 1807.

176.December 2, 1807. See American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 753.

177.Letter of Return J. Meigs to Secretary of War, December 3, 1807.

178.March 10, 1808. See American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 752.

179.January 10, 1812.

180.In March, 1812.

181.May 14, 1812.

182.March 24, 1814.

183.February 3, 1815.

184.A full history of Colonel Earle's attempt to secure a site for the erection of iron works will be found among the records and files of the Office of Indian Affairs.

185.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. II, p. 381. See also amendment to this act by act of February 18, 1841, United States Statutes at Large, Vol. V, p. 412.

186.Scott's Laws of North Carolina and Tennessee.

187.March 26, 1808.

188.See report of General Knox, Secretary of War, to President Washington, July 7, 1789; Creek treaty of 1790; Cherokee treaty of 1791, etc.

189.Confidential message of President Jefferson to Congress, January 18, 1803.

190.March 25.

191.See letter of Secretary of War to Col. R. J. Meigs, May 5, 1808.

192.May 5, 1808.

193.January 9, 1809

194.Letter of Secretary of War to Col. R. J. Meigs, November 1, 1809.

195.March 27, 1811.

196.Indian Office files.

197.March 28, 1811.

198.December 26.

199.November 22, 1815.

200.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 138.

201.March 26, 1816.

202.May 8, 1811.

203.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 120.

204.Letter of Secretary of War to Agent Meigs, November 22, 1815.

205.March, 1816.

206.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 139.

207.Letter from General Jackson to Secretary of War, June 10, 1816.

208.Letter from Secretary of War to United States Senators from Tennessee, April 4, 1816.

209.See letter of Secretary of War to Barnett, Hawkins, and Gaines, April 16, 1816.

210.April 16, 1816. These boundary commissioners were William Barnett, Col. Benjamin Hawkins, and Maj. E. P. Gaines.

211.Letter of General Jackson to Secretary of War, June 10, 1816; also from Commissioner Barnett, June 7, 1816.

212.Old map on file in General Land Office.

213.June 7, 1816.

214.From a letter of Agent Meigs bearing date December 26, 1804, it seems that he was just in receipt of a communication from the Chickasaw chiefs relative to their claim to lands on the north side of Tennessee River. The chiefs assert that part of their people formerly lived at a place called Chickasaw Old Fields, on the Tennessee, about 20 miles above the mouth of Elk River; that while living there they had a war with the Cherokees, when, finding themselves too much separated from their principal settlements, they removed back thereto. Afterwards, on making peace with the Cherokees, their boundaries were agreed on as they are defined in the instrument given them by President Washington in 1794. They further state that they had a war with the Shawnees and drove them from all the waters of the Tennessee and Duck Rivers, as well as conflicts with the Cherokees, Choctaws, and Creeks, in which they defeated all attempts of their enemies to dispossess them of their country. Agent Meigs remarks that he is convinced the claim of the Chickasaws is the best founded; that until recently the Cherokees had always alluded to the country in controversy as the hunting ground of the four nations, and that their few settlements within this region were of recent date.

215.May 25.

216.April 7.

217.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 148.

218.See Indian Office records.

219.Letter of Return J. Meigs to the Secretary of War, dated August 19, 1816. American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. II, p. 113.

220.Report of Commissioners Jackson, Merriwether, and Franklin to Secretary of War, dated Chickasaw Council House, September 20, 1816. American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. II, p. 104.

221.Report of Commissioners Jackson and Merriwether to Secretary of War, October 4, 1816.

222.January 7, 1828.

223.February 25, 1828.

224.United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 156.