150 CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
another force from North Carolina and Colonel Christian a third from Vir- 
ginia, and destroyed most of their principal towns on the Tennessee.! 
At the conclusion of hostilities with the Cherokees, following these 
expeditions, a treaty with them was concluded May 20, 1777, at De 
Witt’s or Duett’s Corners, South Carolina, by the States of South Car- 
olina and Georgia. By the terms of this treaty the Indians ceded a 
considerable region of country upon the Savannah and Saluda Rivers,? 
comprising all their lands in South Carolina to the eastward of the 
Unacaye Mountains. ; 
Two months later (July 20) Commissioners Preston, Christian, and 
Shelby, on the partof Virginia, and Avery, Sharpe, Winston, and Lanier, 
for North Carolina, also concluded a treaty with the Cherokees, by 
which, in the establishment of a boundary between the contracting 
parties, some parts of ‘**Brown’s line,” previously mentioned, were 
agreed upon as a portion of the boundary, and the Indians relinquished 
their lands as low down on Holston River as the mouth of Cloud’s 
Creek. To this treaty the Chicamauga band of Cherokees refused 
to give their assent.® 
The boundaries defined by this treaty are alluded to and described 
in an act of the North Carolina legislature passed in the following year, 
wherein it is stipulated that “no person shall enter or survey any lands 
within the Indian hunting grounds, or without the limits heretofore 
ceded by them, which limits westward are declared to be as follows: 
Begin at a point on the dividing line which hath been agreed upon be- 
tween the Cherokees and the colony of Virginia, where the line between 
that Commonwealth and this State (hereafter to be extended) shall in- 
tersect the same; running thence a right line to the mouth of Cloud’s 
Creek, being the second creek below the Warrior’s Ford, at the mouth 
of Carter’s Valley; thence a right line to the highest point of Chimney 
Top Mountain or High Rock ; thence a right line to the mouth of Camp 
or McNamee’s Creek, on south bank of Nolichucky, about ten miles 
below the mouth of Big Limestone; from the mouth of Camp Creek a 
southeast course to the top of Great Iron Mountain, being the same 
which divides the hunting grounds of the Overhill Cherokees from the 
hunting grounds of the middle settlements ; and from the top of Iron 
Mountain a south course to the dividing ridge between the waters of 
French Broad, and Nolichucky Rivers; thence a southwesterly course 
along the ridge to the great ridge of the Appalachian Mountains, which 
divide the eastern and western waters; thence with said dividing ridge 
to the line that divides the State of South Carolina from this State.” + 
Emigration of Chicamauga band.—The Cherokees being very much 
curtailed in their hunting grounds by the loss of the territory wrested 
‘Letter of Governor Blount to Secretary of War, January 14, 1793. See American 
State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 431. 
*American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 431, and Ramsey’s Tenn., p. 172. 
‘Hay wood’s Tennessee, p. 451. 
‘Scott’s Laws of Tennessee and North Carolina, Vol. I, p. 225. 
