146 CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
Littleton, of South Carolina, marched against the Indians and dtfeated 
them, after which, in 1760, he concluded a treaty of peace with them. 
3y its terms they agreed to kill or imprison every Frenchman who 
should come into their country during the continuance of the war be- 
tween France and Great Britain.! 
Treaty. of 1761.—The hostile course of the Cherokees being still con- 
tinued, the authorities of South Carolina in 1761 dispatched Colonel 
Grant with a force sufficient to overcome them. After destroying their 
crops and fifteen towns he compelled a truce, following which Lieu- 
tenant Governor Bull concluded a treaty with them at Ashley Ferry, or 
Charleston.? By this instrument the boundaries between the Indians 
and the settlements were declared to be the sources of the great rivers 
flowing into the Atlantic Ocean. 
In 1767 the legislature of North Carolina made an appropriation and 
the governor appointed three commissioners for running a dividing-line 
between the western settlements of tbat province and the Cherokee 
hunting grounds.’ 
Treaty and purchase of 1768.—Mr. Stuart, the British superintendent 
of Indian affairs, on the 14th of October, 1768, concluded a treaty. with 
the Cherokees at Hard Labor, South Carolina. Therein it was agreed 
that the southwest boundary of Virginia should be a line “ extending 
from the point where the northern line of North Carolina intersects the 
Cherokee hunting grounds about 36 miles east of Long Island in the 
Holston River; and thence extending in a direct course north by east: 
to Chiswell’s mine on the east bank of the Kenhawa River, and thence 
down that stream to its junction with the Ohio.” 
This treaty was made in pursuance of appeals from the Indians to 
stop further encroachments of settlers upon their lands and to have 
their boundaries definitely fixed, especially in the region of the north 
fork of Holston River and the headwaters of the Kanawha. 
Treaty and purchase of 1770.—The settlements having encroached 
beyond the line fixed by the treaty of 1768, a new treaty was concluded 
on the 18th October, 1770, at Lochabar, South Carolina. A new bound- 
ary line was established by this treaty commencing on the south bank 
of Holston River six miles east of Long Island, and running thence to 
the mouth of the Great Kanawha.° 
Treaty and purchase of 1772.—The Virginia authorities in the early 
part of 1772 concluded a treaty with the Cherokees whereby a bound- 
ary line was fixed between them, which was to run west from White 
Top Mountain in latitude 36° 30/0. This boundary left those settlers on 

'Martin’s North Carolina, Vol. II, p. 106. 
2Tb., Vol. II, p. 152. 
3Ib., Vol. Il, p. 226. 
4*Ramsey’s Annals of Tennessee, p. 76. 
5Ib., p. 102. 
®Tb., p. 109. 
