630 INDIAN LAND CESSIONS IN THE UNITED STATES [eth.ann. 18 



III 1777 a treaty was coucluded between Virginia and North Carolina 

 on the one part, and the Cherokee on the other, by which the boundary 

 and ijrohibitious as set fortli in the act of the legislature of North 

 Carolina are as follows : 



Xo person shall enter or survey any lands within the Indian hunting grounds, or 

 without the limits heretofore ceded by theiu, which limits westward are declared 

 to be as follows : Begin at a point on the dividing line which hath been agreed upon 

 between the C'herokees and the colony of Virginia, where the line between that 

 Commonwealth and this State (hereafter to be extended) shall intersect the same; 

 ruuuiug thence a right line to the mouth of Cloud's Creek, being the second creek 

 below the Warrior's Ford, at the mouth of Carter's Valley; thence a right line to 

 the highest point of Chimney Top Mountain or High Rock; thence a right line 

 to the mouth of Camp or McXamee's Creek, on south bank of Nolichucky, about 

 ten miles below- the mouth of Big Limistone ; from the mouth of Camp Creek a 

 southeast course to the top of Great Iron Jlountain, being the same which divides 

 the hunting grounds of the Overhill Cherokees from the hunting grouuds of the 

 middle settlements ; and from the top of Iron ilountaiu a south course to the dividing 

 ridge between the waters of French Broad, and Nolichuoky Kivers; thence a south- 

 westerly course along the ridge to the great ridge of the Appalachian Jlountains, 

 which divide the eastern and western waters; thence with said dividing ridge to 

 the line that divides the State of South Carolina from this State.' 



The subsequent treaties with these Indians were made by the United 

 States and are given in Mr Eoyce's schedule. 



It would seem from these records, though incomplete and frag- 

 mentary, that but a comparatively small portion of the territory of 

 North Carolina was purchased from the Indians, and, as above stated, 

 that until near the close of the colonial era the province had adopted 

 no fixed policy in regard to this subject. There were, in fact, no tribes 

 in the middle portions that were deemed worthy of the attention of the 

 colonists when the demand for their lands arose. Mr James Mooney, 

 of the Bureau of American Ethnology, who has made a careful study 

 of the natives of this section, remarks- — 



The tribes between the mountains and the sea were of hut small importance 

 politically; no sustained mission work was ever attempted among them, and there 

 were but few literary men to take an interest in them. War, pestilence, whisky 

 and systematic slave hunts had nearly exterminated the aboriginal occupants of the 

 Carolinas before anybody had thought them of sufficient importance to ask who 

 they were, how they lived, or what were their beliefs and opinions. 



SOUTH CAROLINA 



The first settlement of this state, wliich was destined to form part of 

 the real history thereof, was made in 1G70 at or near Port Eoyal. Dis- 

 satisfied with the location, the settlers moved to the banks of Ashley 

 river, where they began what was to become the city -of Charleston. 

 Whether the particular lands taken possession offer these settlements 

 were purchased at the time such settlements were made is unknown; 

 at least, history has left the inquiry unanswered. However, it is 



'Fifth Annual Report Bureau of Ethnology. 18S3-81,p. 150. 

 ' The Siouan Tribes of the East (1804), p. ci. 



