Royce] TREATY OF OCTOBER 2, 1793. TEE 
of the Cherokees to the sale of such part of their lands as would give a 
more convenient form to the State of Tennessee and conduce to the 
protection of its citizens. Especially was it desirable to obtain their 
consent to the immediate return of such settlers as had intruded on 
their lands and in consequence had been removed by the United States 
troops, such consent to be predicated on the theory that the Cherokees 
were willing to treat for the sale to the United States of the lands upon 
which these people had settled. They were directed to renew the un- 
successful effort made by Governor Blount in 1791 to secure the consent 
of the Cherokees that the boundary should begin at the mouth of Duck 
River and run up the middle of that stream to its source and thence 
by a line drawn to the mouth of Clinch River. The following alter- 
native boundary propositions were directed to be submitted for the con- 
sideration of the Indians, in their numerical order, viz: 
J. A line (represented on an accompanying map by a red dotted line) 
from a point on the ridge dividing the waters of the Cumberland from the 
Tennessee River, in a southwest direction, until it should strike the mouth 
of Duck River; thence from the mouth to the main source of the river; 
thence by a line over the highest ridges of the Cumberland Mountains 
to the mouth of Clinch River; thence down the middle of the Tennessee 
River till it struck the divisional line under the treaties of 1791 and 
1794; thence along said line to its crossing of the Cunchee Creek run- 
ning into Tuckasegee; thence to the Great Iron Mountains; thence 
a southeasterly course to where the most southerly branch of Little 
River crossed the divisional line to Tugaloo River. 
2. A line (represented on said map by a double red line) beginning at 
the point 40 miles above Nashville, as ascertained by the commissioners 
(and laid down on said map); thence due east till it struck the dotted 
line on Cumberland Mountains; along said mountains to the junction 
of Clinch and Tennessee Rivers; and down the Tennessee to the extent 
of the boundary described in the first proposition. 
3, A line (dotted blue) beginning at a point 56 miles from the point 
40 miles above Nashville, on the northeast divisional line, being 15 miles 
south of the road called Walton’s or Caney Fork road; thence on a 
course at the same distance from the said road to where it crosses Clinch 
River; thence resuming the remaining boundary as described in the 
first proposition. 
4, A line (being a double blue line on the map) beginning at a point 
one mile south of the junction of the Clinch and Tennessee Livers ; 
thence westerly along the course of the road 14 miles south thereof 
until it entered into Cumberland Mountains; thence a northeasterly 
course along the ridges of said mountains on the west of Powell’s Val- 
ley and River to the source of the river next above Clear Fork, and 
thence down the middle of the same to the northeast divisional line; 
the Tennessee River and the further line thence, as described in the 
first proposition, to be the remaining boundary. 
3 BYH——12 
