THOMAS] SOUTH Carolina's policy toward the Indians 633 



of June 13, 1710, (number 373,) were approi)riated toother uses.' This 

 act was declared uuU aud void bj' the Lords Proprietors. 



lu 1712 there was ])assed "An act for settling the Island called Pala- 

 wana, upon the Cusaboe Indians now liviug in (Iranville County and 

 upon their Posterity forever." The first section of this act is as follows : 



Whereas tlio Cnsahoe Indians of Granville County, are the native and ancient 

 Inhabitants of the Sea Coasts, of this Province, and kindly entertained the first 

 ICiii/li8li who arrived in the same, and are useful to the Government for Watching 

 and Discovering: Enemies, and finding Shipwreck'd People; And whereas the Island 

 called Palauana near the Island of St. Helena, upon which most of the Plantations 

 of the said Cusaboes now are, was formerly by Inadvertaney granted by the Right 

 Honorable the Lords Proprietors of this Province, to Matthew Smallwooil, aud by 

 him sold and transferred to Jamex Corliram, whose Property and Possession it is at 

 present; Be it Enacted by the most noble Prince llcnrij Duke of Bcaiiford, Pala- 

 tine, and the Rest of the Right Honorable the true and absolute Lords and Proprie- 

 tors of Carolina, together with the Advice and Consent of the Jlembers of the Gen- 

 eral Assembly now met at Charles-Town for the South West Part of this Province, 

 That from and after the Ratification of this Act, the Island of Palawana, lying nigh 

 the Island of .St. Helena, in (iranrille County, containing between Four and Five 

 Hundred Acres of Land, be it more or less, now in the Possession of James Cockram 

 as aforesaid, shall be and is hereby declared to be vested in the aforesaid Ciiaaboe 

 Indians, and in their Heirs forever. '' 



The only important treaties in regard to lands after this date were with 

 the Cherokee and Creek Indians. As the treaties with the Cherokee are 

 all mentioned by Mr Royce in his paper published in the Fifth Annual 

 Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, a brief reference to them is all 

 that is necessary here. The map which accompanies the paper cited 

 shows the several tracts obtained by these treaties. 



By treaty of 1721 with the Cherokee, Governor Nicholson fixed the 

 boundary line between that tribe and the English; he also regulated 

 the weights aud measures to be used, and appointed an agent to super- 

 intend their afiairs. 



About the same time a treaty of peace was concluded with the Creeks 

 by which Savannah river was made the boundary of their hunting- 

 grounds, beyond which no settlement of the whites was to extend. 



In 17.")5 Governor Glenn, by treaty with the Cherokee, obtained an 

 important cession. By its terms the Indians ceded to Great Britain all 

 that territory embraced in the present limits of Abbeville, Edgefield, 

 Laurens, Union, Spartanburg, Newberry, Chester, Fairfield, Richland, 

 and York districts. 



Ill 1701 another treaty was made with the same tribe by Lieutenant- 

 Governor Bull, by which the sources of the great rivers flowing into 

 the Atlantic were declared to be the boundary between the Indians 

 and the whites. 



On June 1, 1773, a treaty was concluded jointly with the Creeks and 

 Cherokee by the British superintendent, by which they ceded to Great 

 Britain a tract "begin,'' etc., as described below under "Georgia." 



It is proper to remind the reader at this point that the royal procla- 



> Laws of the I'roviuce of South Carolina, by Nicholas Trott (1763), p. 295. » Ibid., No. 338, p 277. 



