144 CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
location and names of their towns were continually changing until the 
final removal of the nation west of the Mississippi.' 
EXPULSION OF SHAWNEES BY CHEROKEES AND GHICKASAWS. 
In the latter portion of the seventeenth century the Shawnees, or a 
portion of them, had their villages on the Cumberland, and to some 
extent, perhaps, on the Tennessee also. They were still occupying that 
region as late as 1714, when they were visited by M. Charleville, a French 
trader, but having about this time incurred the hostility of the Chero- 
kees and Chickasaws they were driven from the country. Many years 
later, in the adjustment of a territorial dispute between the Cherokees 
and Chickasaws, each nation claimed the sole honor of driving out the 
Shawnees, and hence, by right of conquest, the title to the territory 
formerly inhabited by the latter. The Chickasaws evidently had the 
best of the controversy, though some concessions were made te the 
Cherokees in the matter when the United States came to negotiate for 
the purchase of the controverted territory. 
TREATY RELATIONS WITIL THE COLONIES. 
Treaty and purchase of 1721.—The treaty relations between the Cher- 
okees and the whites began in 1721, when jealousy of French territo- 
rial encroachments persuaded Governor Nicholson of South Carolina to 
invite the Cherokees to a general congress, with a view to the conclu- 
sion of a treaty of peace and commerce. 
The invitation was accepted, and delegates attended from thirty-seven 
towns, with whom, after smoking the pipe of peace and distributing 
presents, he agreed upon defined boundaries and appointed an agent 
to superintend their affairs.” 
Treaty of 1730.—Again, in 1730, the authorities of North Carolina 
commissioned Sir Alexander Cumming to conclude a treaty of alliance 
with the Cherokees. In April of that year the chiefs and warriors of 
the nation met him at Requasse, near the sources of the Hiwassee River, 
acknowledged King George as their sovereign, and sent a delegation of 
six warriors to carry the crown of the nation (consisting of five eagle 
tails and four scalps) to England and do homage to the King, where they 
concluded a treaty of peace and commerce at Dover on the 30th of June. 
1 From a distribution roll of Cherokee annuities paid in the year 1799 it appears 
that there were then 51 Cherokee towns, designated as follows: Oostinawley, Creek 
Path, Aumoia, Nicojack, Running Water, Ellijay, Cabben, High Tower, Pine Log, 
High Tower Forks, Tocoah, Coosawaytee, Crowtown, Shoemeck, Aumuchee, Tulloolah, 
Willstown, Acohee, Cuclon, Duck-town, Ailigulsha, Highwassee, Tennessee, Lookout 
Mountain, Noyohee, Tusquittee, Coosa, Nantiyallee, Saukee, Keyukee, Red Bank, 
Nukeza, Cowpens, Telassee, Buffalo Town, Little Tellico, Rabbit Trap, Notley, Turnip 
Mountain, Sallicoah, Kautika, Tausitu, Watoga, Cowee, Chillhoway, Chestuee, Tur- 
key Town, Toquah, Chota, Big Tellico, and Tusskegee. 
*Ramsey’s Annals of ‘Tennessee, p. 46. 
