46 The Winning of the West 



fellows who did not. The whole treaty was, in fact, 

 on both sides, of a merely preliminary nature. The 

 boundaries it arranged were not considered final 

 until confirmed by the treaty of Hopewell a couple 

 of years later. 



Robertson meanwhile was delegated by the unani 

 mous vote of the settlers to go to the Assembly of 

 North Carolina, and there petition for the establish 

 ment of a regular land office at Nashborough, and 

 in other ways advance the interests of the settlers. 

 He was completely successful in his mission. The 

 Cumberland settlements were included in a new 

 county, called Davidson; 10 and an Inferior Court of 

 Pleas and Common Sessions, vested by the act with 

 extraordinary powers, was established at Nashbor 

 ough. The four justices of the new court had all 

 been Triers of the old committee, and the scheme 

 of government was practically not very greatly 

 changed, although now resting on an indisputably 

 legal basis. The Cumberland settlers had for years 

 acted as an independent, law-abiding, and orderly 

 commonwealth, and the Court of Triers had shown 

 great firmness and wisdom. It spoke well for the 

 people that they had been able to establish such a 

 government, in which the majority ruled, while the 

 rights of each individual were secured. Robertson 

 deserves the chief credit as both civil and military 

 leader. The committee of which he was a member, 



10 In honor of General Wm. Davidson, a very gallant and 

 patriotic soldier of North Carolina during the Revolutionary 

 war. The county government was established in October, 

 1783- 



