TREATIES WITH THE CHEROKEES. 
TREATY CONCLUDED NOVEMBER 28, 1755.! 
At Hopewell, on the Keowee River, in South Carolina, between Benjamin 
Hawkins, Andrew Pickens, Joseph Martin, and Lachlane MIntosh, Com- 
missioners Plenipotentiary of the United States, and the Headmen and 
Warriors of all the Cherokees. 
MATERIAL PROVISIONS. 
The United States give peace to the Cherokees and receive them into 
favor and protection on the following conditions: 
1. The Cherokees to restore to liberty all prisoners citizens of the 
United States or subjects of their allies; also, all negroes and other 
property taken from citizens during the late war. 
2. The United States to restore to the Cherokees all Indian prisoners 
taken during the late war. 
3. The Cherokees to acknowledge themselves under the exclusive pro- 
tection of the United States. 
4. The boundary line between the Cherokees’ hunting-ground and the 
United States to be as follows, viz: Begin at the mouth of Duck River 
on the Tennessee; thence northeast to the ridge dividing the waters 
falling into the Cumberland from those falling into the Terinessee; thence 
eastwardly along said ridge to a northeast line to be run, which shall 
strike Cumberland River 40 miles above Nashville; thence along said 
line to the river; thence up the river to the ford where the Kentucky 
road crosses; thence to Campbell’s line near Cumberland Gap; thence 
to the mouth of Claud’s Creek on Holstein; thence to Chimney-Top 
Mountain, thence to Camp Creek, near the mouth of Big Limestone on 
Nolichucky ; thence southerly six (6) miles toa mountain; thence south 
to the North Carolina line; thence to the South Carolina Indian bound- 
ary, and along the same southwest over the top of Oconee Mountain 
till it shall strike Tugaloo River; thence a direct line to the top of 
Currohee Mountain; thence to the head of the south fork of Oconee 
River. 


' United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 12. 
