Rovee.| TREATY OF NOVEMBER 238, 1785. 151 
from them by the terms of these two treaties, began a movement fur- 
ther down the Tennessee River, and the most warlike and intractable 
portion of them, known as the Chicamaugas, settled and built towns on 
Chicamauga Creek, about one hundred miles below the mouth of the 
Holston River. Becoming persuaded, however, that this creek was 
infested with witches they abandoned it in 1782, and built lower down 
the Tennessee the towns usually called “The Five Lower Towns onthe 
Tennessee.” These towns were named respectively Running Water, 
Nickajack, Long Island Village, Crow Town, and Lookout Mountain 
Town. From thence marauding parties were wont to issue in their 
operations against the rapidly encroaching settlements. 
Although comparative peace and quiet for a time followed the heroic 
treatment administ ered tothe Indians by the expeditions of Williamson, 
Rutherford, Christian, and others, reciprocal outrages between the 
whites and Indians were of frequent occurrence. The situation was 
aggravated in 1783 by the action of the assembly of North Carolina in 
passing an act (without consulting the Indians or making any effort 
to secure their concurrence) extending the western boundary of that 
State to the Mississippi River, reserving, howeyer, fer the use of the 
Cherokees as a hunting ground a tract comprised between the point 
where the Tenn essee River first crosses.the southern boundary of the 
State and the head waters of Big Pigeon River.? 
Treaty and purchase of 1783.—On the 31st of May of this same year, 
by a treaty concluded at Augusta, Ga., the Cherokee delegates 
present (together with a few Creeks, who, on the 1st of November suc- 
ceeding, agreed to the cession) assumed to cede to that State the re- 
spective claims of those two nations to the country lying on the west 
side of the Tugaloo River, extending to and including the Upper Oconee 
River region.’ With the provisions of this treaty no large or represent- 
ative portion of either nation was satisfied, and in connection with the 
remarkable territorial assertions of the State of North Carolina, together 
with the constant encroachments of white settlers beyond the Indian 
boundary line, a spirit of restless discontent and fear was nourished 
among the Indians that resulted in many acts of ferocious hostility. 
Treaties with the State of Franklin.—In 1784, in consequence of the ces- 
sion by North Carolina to the United States of all her claims to lands 
west of the mountains (which cession was not, however, accepted by the 
United States within the two years prescribed by the act) the citizens 
within the limits of the present State of Tennessee elected delegates 
to a convention, which formed a State organization under the name of 
the State of Franklin and which maintained a somewhat precarious po- 

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‘ Letter of Governor Blount to Secretary of War, January 14, 1793. See American 
State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 431, also page 263. 
* Report of Senate Committee March 1, 1797. See American State Papers, Indian 
Affairs, Vol. I, p. 623, Also Ramsey’s Annals of Tennessee, p. 276. 
* Carpenter and Arthur’s History of Georgia, p. 253. 
