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spring and summer peace treaties were definitely 

 concluded between the Upper Cherokees and Vir- 

 ginia and North Carolina at the Great Island of 

 the Holston, 80 and between the Lower Cherokees 

 and South Carolina and Georgia at De Witt's Cor- 

 ners. The Cherokees gave up some of their lands; 

 of the four seacoast provinces South Carolina gained 

 most, as was proper, for she had done and suffered 

 most 81 



The Watauga people and the Westerners gener- 

 ally were the real gainers by the war. Had the Wa- 

 tauga settlements been destroyed, they would no 

 longer have covered the Wilderness Road to Ken- 

 tucky; and so Kentucky must perforce have been 

 abandoned. But the followers of Robertson and 

 Sevier stood stoutly for their homes; not one of 

 them fled over the mountains. The Cherokees had 

 been so roughly handled that for several years they 

 did not again go to war as a body ; and this not only 

 gave the settlers a breathing time, but also enabled 

 them to make themselves so strong that when the 

 struggle was renewed they could easily hold their 

 own. The war was thus another and important 



80 The boundary then established between the Cherokees 

 and Watauga people was known as Brown's Line. 



81 As a very rough guess after a careful examination of all 

 the authorities, it may be said that in this war somewhat less 

 than two hundred Indians were slain, all warriors. The loss 

 of the whites in war was probably no greater ; but it included 

 about as many more women and children. So that perhaps 

 two or three times as many whites as Indians were killed, 

 counting in every one. 



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