ROYCE. ] TREATY OF NOVEMBER 28, 1785 147 
the Watauga River within the Indian limits, whereupon, as a measure 
of temporary relief, they leased for a period of eight years from the 
Indians in consideration of goods to the value of five or six thousand 
dollars all the country on the waters of the Watauga. Subsequently 
in 1775 [March 19] they secured a deed in fee simple therefor upon the 
further consideration of £2,000. This deed was executed to Charles 
Robertson as the representative or trustee of the Watauga Settlers’ Asso- 
ciation, and embraced the following tract of country, viz: All that tract 
on the waters of the Watauga, Holston, and Great Canaway or New 
River, beginning on the south or southwest of Holston River six miles 
above Long Island in that river; thence a direct line in nearly a south 
course to the ridge dividing the waters of Watauga from the waters of 
Nonachuckeh and along the ridge in a southeasterly direction to the 
Blue Ridge or line dividing North Carolina from the Cherokee lands; 
thence along the Blue Ridge to the Virginia line and west along such 
line to the Holston River; thence down the Holston River to the begin- 
ning, including all the waters of the Watauga, part of the waters of the 
Holston, and the head branches of New River or Great Canaway, agree- 
able to the aforesaid boundaries. 
Jacob Broun’s purchase-—Jacob Brown, in 1772, for a horse load of 
goods leased from the Cherokees a tract on the Watauga and Nona- 
chucky Rivers. 
Three years later (March 25, 1775) for a further consideration of ten 
shillings he secured from them a deed in fee for the leased tract as well 
as an additional tract of considerable extent. 
The boundary of the first of these bodies of land ran from the mouth 
of Great Limestone Creek, thence up the same and its main fork to the 
ridge dividing the Wataugah and Nonachuchy Rivers; thence to the head 
of Indian Creek, where it joins the Great Iron Mountains, and along 
those mountains to the Nonachuchy River; across the Nonachuchy River, 
including its creeks, and down the side of Nonachuchy Mountain against 
the mouth of Great Limestone Creek and from thence to the place of 
beginning. 
The second purchase comprised a tract lying on the Nonachuchy 
River below the mouth of Big Limestone on both sides of the river and 
adjoining the tract just described. Its boundaries were defined as 
beginning on the south side of the Nonachuchy River below the old 
fields that lie below the Limestone on the north side of Nonachuchy 
Mountain at a large rock; thence north 32° west to the mouth of Camp 
Creek on the south side of the river; thence across the river; thence pur- 
suing a northwesterly course to the dividing ridge between Lick Creek 
and Watauga or Holston River, thence along the dividing ridge to the 
rest of Brown’s lands; thence down the main fork of Big Limestone to 
its mouth; thence crossing the Nonachuchy River and pursuing a 

!Ramsey’s Aunals of Tennessee, p. 119. 
