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2, An unimpeded communication of Holston and Clinch Rivers with 
the Tennessee and the surrender of the west bank of the Clinch oppo- 
site South-West Point. 
3. To secure from future molestation the settlements as far as they 
had progressed on the northern and western borders of the State and 
the connection of Hamilton and Mero districts, then separated by a 
space of unextinguished hunting ground 80 miles wide. 
4, To examine into the nature and validity of the claim recently set 
up by the Cherokees to lands north of the Tennessee River; whether 
it rested upon original right or was derived from treaties: or was 
founded only upon temporary use or occupancy. 
The council opened early in July. The “ Bloody Fellow,” a Cherokee 
chief, at the outset delivered a paper which he stated to contain their 
final resolutions, and which covered a peremptory refusal to sell any 
land or to permit the ejected settlers to return to their homes. After 
seeking in vain to shake this determination of the Cherokees, further 
negotiations were postponed until the ensuing fall, and the commission- 
ers departed. 
On the 27th of August, the Secretary of War addressed some addi- 
tional instructions upon the subject to George Walton and Lieut. Col. 
Thomas Butler as commissioners (John Steele haying resigned and 
Alfred Moore having returned to his home in North Carolina), author- 
izing them to renew the negotiations. The original instructions were 
to form the basis of these negotiations, but if it should be found im- 
practicable to induce the Indians to accede to either of the first three 
propositions, an abandonment of them was to take place, and resort 
was to be had to the fourth proposition, which might be altered in any 
manner as to boundaries calculated to secure the most advantageous 
results to the United States.!. The council was resumed at Tellico on 
the 20th of September, but it was found, during the progress thereof, 
that there was no possibility of effecting the primary objects of the State 
agents of Tennessee. General Robertson failed to attend. General 
White (who had been appointed in the place of Stuart) was there, but 
Mr. MeIntosh resigned and Governor Sevier himself attended in person. 
The treaty was finally concluded on the 2d of October, by which a 
cession was secured covering most of the territory contemplated by the 
fourth proposition, with something additional. 1t included most if not 
all the Iands from which settlers had been ejected by the United States 
troops, and they were permitted to return to their homes. 
-The road privilege sought to be obtained between East and Middle 
Tennessee was also realized, except as to the establishment of houses 
of entertainment for travelers.” 

1 American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 640. 
2By act of September 27, 1794, the legislature of the territory southwest of the 
Ohio authorized the raising of a fund for cutting and clearing a wagon road from 
Southwest Point to Bledsoe’s Lick on the Cumberland. The funds for this pur- 
