ROYCE.) TREATY OF JUNE 26, 1794. fal 
war parties, and it was not until the latter year that the frontiers found 
any repose from Indian depredations. 
The general tranquillity enjoyed after that date seems to have been 
occasioned by the wholesome discipline administered to the tribes north- 
west of the Ohio by General Wayne, in his victory of August 20, 
1794, and as a result of the expedition of Major Ore, with his command 
of Teunesseeans and Kentuckians, in September of the same year, 
against the Lower Towns of the Cherokees, wherein two of those towns, 
Running Water and Nickajack, were destroyed.! 
TREATY CONCLUDED JUNE 26, 1794; PROCLAIMED JANUARY 21, 1795.2 
Held at Philadelphia, Pa., between Henry Knox, Secretary of War, on 
behalf of the United States, and the chiefs and warriors representing 
the Cherokee Nation of Indians. 
MATERIAL PROVISIONS. 
The treaty of July 2, 1791, not having been fuily carried into effect, 
by reason of some misunderstanding, this treaty was concluded to adju- 
dicate such differences, and contains the following provisions: 
1. The treaty of July 2, 1791, declared to be in full force in respect to 
the boundaries, as well as in all other respects whatever. 
2. The boundaries mentioned in the 4th article of treaty of July 2, 1791, 
to be ascertained and marked after ninety days’ notice shall have been 
given to the Cherokee Nation of the time and place of commencing the 
operation by the United States commissioners. 
3. The United States agree, in lieu of all former sums, to furnish 
the Cherokees with $5,000 worth of goods annually, as compensation for 
all territory ceded by treaties of November 28, 1785, and July 2, 1791. 
4. Fifty dollars to be deducted from Cherokee annuity for every horse 
stolen by Cherokees from whites and not returned within three months. 
5. These articles to be considered as additions to treaty of July 2, 
1791, as soon as ratified by the President and Senate of the United 
States. 
HISTORICAL DATA. 
COMPLAINTS CONCERNING BOUNDARIES. 
The destruction of the official records renders it very difficult to ascer- 
tain the details of the misunderstandings alleged in the preamble of this 

! Report of Maj. James Ore to Governor Blount, September 24,1794. He left Nash- 
ville September 7, with 550 mounted infantry, crossed the Tennessee on the 12th, 
about 4 miles below Nickajack, and on the morning of the 13th destroyed Nickajack 
and Running Water towns, killing upwards of 50 and making a number prisoners. 
See American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 632. 
United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 43. 
