ROYCE. | TREATY OF NOVEMBER 28, 1785. ali 
Creek, a distance, as stated by Governor Blount, of 60 miles to Ruther- 
ford’s War Trace, although the point at which it struck this ‘ Trace,” 
which is given in Governor Blount’s correspondence as being 10 or 12 
miles west of the Swannanoa settlement, is only a trifle over 50 miles 
in a direct line from the mouth of Camp Creek. 
The ‘“ Rutherford’s War Trace” here spoken of was the route pur- 
sued by General Griffith Rutherford, who, in the summer of 1776, 
marched an army of 2,400 men against the Cherokees. He was re-en- 
forced by Colonels Martin and Armstrong at Cathey’s Fort; crossed 
the Blue Ridge at Swannane Gap; passed down and over the French 
Broad at a place yet known as the “War Ford;” continued up the 
valley of Hominy Creek, leaving Pisgah Mountain to the left and cross- 
ing Pigeon River a little below the mouth of East Fork; thence through 
the mountains to Richland Creek, above the present town of Waynes- 
ville; ascended that creek and crossed Tuckaseigee River at an Indian 
village; continued across Cowee Mountain, and thence to the Middle 
Cherokee Towns on Tennessee River, to meet General Williamson, 
from South Carolina, with an army bent on a like mission.! The 
boundary between western North Carolina and South Carolina was not 
definitely established at the date of the survey of Hardin’s line and, 
as shown by an old map on file in the Office of Indian Affairs, the point 
at which a prolongation of Hardin’s line would have struck the South 
Carolina Indian boundary was supposed to be on or near the 35th degree 
of north latitude,’ whereas it was actually more than 20 miles to the 
north of that parallel and about 10 miles to the north of the present 
boundary of South Carolina. The definite establishment of this treaty 
line of 1785 in this quarter, however, became unnecessary by reason of 
the ratification in February, 1792, of the Cherokee treaty concluded 
July 2, 1791,° wherein the Indian boundary line was withdrawn a con- 
siderable distance to the west. 
9. The line along the “South Carolina Indian boundary” ran in a 
southwesterly direction from the point of contact with the prolongation 
of Hardin’s line, passing over “Ocunna” Mountain a short distance to 
the northwestwardly of Ovonee Station and striking the Tugaloo River 
at a point about 1 mile above the mouth of Panther Creek.’ 
10. The line from Tugaloo River pursued a west of south course to 
Currahee Mountain, which is the southern terminus of a spur of the 
Alleghany Mountains, and is situated 4 miles southwest of ‘Toccoa 
Falls” and 16 miles northwest of Carnesville, Georgia. 
11. From ‘Currahee Mountain to the head of the south fork of 
Oconee River,” the line pursued a course south 38° west? to the source 
of that stream, now commonly known as the Appallachee River, and 

1 Ramsey’s Annals of Tennessee. 
“2Old manuscript map on file in Indian Office, Washington, D. C, 
3 United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 39. 
