ROYCE.) TREATY OF NOVEMBER 28, 1785. Mays: 
‘*“ Nettle Carrier,” a Cherokee Indian of some local note, lived on the 
headwaters of Nettle Carrier’s Creek, about four or five miles east of Liv- 
ingston, and the line passed about half-way between his cabin and the 
present site of that village.! Thence it continued to the crossing of 
Obey’s River, and thence to the point of intersection with the Kentucky 
boundary line, which is ascertained to have been at the northeast 
corner of Overton County, Tennessee, as originally organized in 1806. 
From this point the line continued to the crossing of Big South Fork, 
at the place indicated by General Winchester, and thence on to the 
Cumberland at the terminal point one mile above the mouth of Rock 
Castle River. In the interest of clearness a literal following of the line 
indicated in General Winchester’s letter, and also that given by Arrow: 
smith and Lewis, are shown upon the accompanying map. At the con- 
ference preliminary to the signing of the treaty of 1785, the Indians 
also asserted that within the fork of the French Broad and Holston 
Rivers were 3,000 white settlers who were therein defiance of their pro- 
tests. They maintained that they had never ceded that country, and 
it being a favorite spot with them the settlers must be removed. The 
commissioners vainly endeavored to secure a cession of the French 
Broad tract, remarking that the settlers were too numerous to make 
their removal possible, but could only succeed in securing the insertion 
of an article in the treaty, providing for the submission of the subject 
to Congress, the settlers, in the mean time, to remain unmolested.? 
Protest of North Carolina and Georgia.—During the pendency of 
negotiations, William Blount, of North Carolina, and John King and 
Thomas Glasscock, of Georgia, presented their commissions as the 
agents representing the interests of their respective States. They 
entered formal protests in the names of those States against the 
validity of the treaty, as containing several stipulations which infringed 
and violated the legislative rights thereof. The principal of these was 
the right, as assumed by the commissioners, of assigning to the Indians, 
territory which had already been appropriated, by act of the legislature 
in the case of North Carolina, to the discharge of bounty-land claims of 
the officers and soldiers of that State who had served in the Continental 
line during the Revolution.’ 
There were present at this treaty, according to the report of the com- 
missioners, 918 Cherokees, to whom, after the signature and execution 
thereof, were distributed as presents goods to the value of $1,31122. 
The meagerness of the supply was occasioned, as the commissioners 
explained, by their expectancy of only meeting the chiefs and head- 
men.* 
1 Letter of Geo. H. Morgan, of Gainesborough, Tennessee. 
*Report of Treaty Commissioners. See American State Papers, Indian Affairs, 
Vol. I, p. 38. 
3 American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 44. 
4Journal of Treaty Commissioners. See American State Papers, Indian Affairs, 
Wollleip. 43. 
