158 CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
was the terminal point of the boundary as defined in this treaty. 
This line was surveyed in 17981 under the direction of Col. Benj. 
Hawkins. 
It is also a pertinent fact in connection with the boundaries defined 
by this treaty (as already stated in connection with Henderson’s treaty), 
that although a literal reading of the description contained in Hender- 
son’s ‘Great Grant” of 1775 would include all the country watered by 
the tributaries of the Cumberland, the commissioners who negotiated 
this treaty of Hopewell in 1785 did not consider Henderson’s Purchase 
as extending south of the Cumberland River proper, except in its course 
from Powell’s Mountain to the head of the most southwardly branch of 
thatriver. This branch was considered by these commissioners of 1785 
as being the Yellow River, whose source was at best but imperfectly 
known. They specifically state that they accept the boundaries of Hen- 
derson’s Purchase in this direction,? and as the boundary defined by 
them between Powell’s Mountain and Yellow River was ‘ Campbell’s 
line,” they must have considered that line as being the southern limit 
of Henderson’s Great Grant. 
TREATY CONCLUDED JULY 2, 1791; PROCLAIMED FEBRUARY 7, 1792.* 
Held on bank of Holston River, near the mouth of French Broad, between 
William Blount, governor of the Territory south of Ohio River and 
superintendent of Indian affairs, representing the President of the 
United States, on the part and behalf of said States, and the chiefs 
and warriors of the Cherokee Nation on the part and behalf of said 
nation. 
MATERIAL PROVISIONS. 
1. Perpetual peace declared between the United States and the Chero- 
kee Nation. 
2. Cherokees to be under sole protection of the United States and to 
hold no treaty with any State or individuals. 
3. Cherokees and the United States to mutually release prisoners 
captured one from the other. 
4. Boundary between the United States and the Cherokees defined as 
follows: Beginning at the top of Currahee Mountain, where the Creek line 
passes if; thence a direct line to Tugelo River; thence northeast to 
Ocunna Mountain and over same along South Carolina Indian boundary 

‘See resolution of Georgia legislature, June 16,1802. It is however stated by 
Return J. Meigs, in a letter to the Secretary of War dated December 20, 1811, that 
this line was run by Colonel Hawkins in 1797. 
2? American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 38. 
*United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 39. 
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