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in their behalf to the east of the former stream. But nevertheless, on 
Bowen’s map of 1752 (obviously copied from earlier maps), there is 
laid down the name of “ Keowee Old Town.” The location of this town 
was on Deep River in the vicinity of the present town of Ashborough, 
N.C. It was a favorite name of the Cherokees among their towns, and 
affords a strong evidence of at least a temporary residence of a portion 
of the tribe in that vicinity. A map executed by John Senex in 1721 
defines the Indian boundary in this region as following the Catawba, 
Wateree, and Santee Rivers as far down as the most westerly bend of the 
latter streain, in the vicinity of the boundary line between Orangeburg 
and Charleston districts, whence it pursued a southwesterly course to 
the Edisto River, which it followed to the sea-coast. The southern 
portion of this boundary was of course a definition of limits between 
Carolina and the Creeks, or rather of certain tribes that formed compo- 
nent parts of the Creek confederacy. No evidence has been discovered 
tending to show an extension of Cherokee limits in a southerly direce- 
tion beyond the point mentioned above on the Edisto River, which, as 
near as can be ascertained, was at the junction of the North and South 
Edisto. Following from thence up the South Edisto to its source the 
boundary pursued a southwesterly course, striking the Savannah River 
in the vicinity of the mouth of Stevens Creek, and proceeding thence 
northwardly along the Savannah. 
On the borders of Virginia and North Carolina the ancient limits of 
the Cherokees seem to be also shrouded in more or less doubt and con- 
fusion. In general terms, however, it may be said that after following 
the Catawba River to its source in the Blue Ridge the course of those 
mountains was pursued until their intersection with the continuation 
of the Great Iron Mountain range, near Floyd Court-House, Va., and 
thence to the waters of the Kanawha or New River, whence their claim 
continued down that stream to the Ohio. At a later date they also set 
up a claim to the country extending from the mouth of the Kanawha 
down the Ohio to the ridge dividing the waters of the Cumberland from 
those of the Tennessee at the mouths of those streams, and thence fol- 
lowing that ridge to a point northeast of the mouth of Duck River; 
thence to the mouth of Duck River on the Tennessee, and coutinuing up 
with the course of the latter river to Bear Crecl: ; up the latter to a point 
ealled Flat Rock, and thence to the Ten Islands in Coosa River, &e. 
That portion of the country thus covered, comprising a large part of 
the present States of West Virginia and Kentucky, was also claimed by 
the Six Nations by right of former conquest, as well as by the Shawnees 
and Delawares. 
Adair, a trader for forty years among the Cherokees, who traveled 
extensively through their country about the middle of the eighteenth 
century, thus specifically outlines the boundaries of their country at 
that period: “The country lies in about 34 degrees north latitude at the 
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