ROYCE. } TREATY OF OCTOBER 2, 1792. 181 
President Adams transmitted the treaty to the Senate,! and that 
body advised and consented to its ratification. 
Boundary lines surveyed.—In fulfillment of the provisions ef the fifth 
article of the treaty concerning the survey of boundary lines, the Presi- 
dent appointed Captain Butler as a commissioner to run that portion of 
the line described as extending from Great Iron Mountain in a south- 
easterly direction to the point where the most southerly branch of Lit- 
tle River crossed the divisional line to Tugaloo River, which trust he 
executed in the summer of 1799.2 Owing to the unfortunate destrue- 
tion of official records by fire, in the year 1800, it is impossible to ascer- 
tain all the details concerning this survey, but it was executed on the 
theory that the “Little River” named in the treaty was one of the 
northernmost branches of Keowee River. 
This survey seems not to have been accepted by the War Depart- 
ment, for on the 3d of June, 1802, instructions were issued by the Sec- 
retary of War to Return J. Meigs, as a commissioner, to superintend 
the execution of the survey of this same portion of the boundary. Mr. 
Thomas Freeman was appointed surveyor.® 
From the letter of Commissioner Meigs, transmitting the plat and 
field notes of survey,‘ it appears that much difference of opinion had 
existed as to what stream was meant by the “ Little River” named in 
the treaty, there being three streams of that name in that vicinity. 
Two of these were branches of the French Broad and the other of 
Keowee River. If the line should be run to the lower one of these two 
branches of the French Broad, it would leave more than one hundred 
families of white settlers within the Indian territory. If it were run 
to the branch of Keowee River, it would leave ten or twelve Indian 
villages within the State of North Carolina. 
It was therefore determined by Commissioner Meigs to accept the 
upper branch of French Broad as the true intent and meaning of the 
treaty, and the line was run accordingly, whereby not a single white 
settlement was cut off or intersected, and but five Indian families were 
left on the Carolina side of the line.° 

pose were to be raised by a lottery managed by Cols. James White, James Winches- 
ter, Stockley Donelson, David Campbell, William Cocke, and Robert Hayes. The In- 
dians not haying granted the necessary right of way, its construction was necessarily” 
postponed, but subsequently, by act of the legislature of Tennessee passed November 
14, 1801, the Cumberland Road Company was incorporated and required to cut and 
clear a road from the Indian boundary on the east side of Cumberland Mountain to 
the fork of the roads leading to Fort Blount and Walton’s Ferry. 
! January 15, 1799. 7 
2See letter of General Pickens to Representative Nott, of South Carolina, Janu- 
ary 1, 1800. American State Papers, Public Lands, Vol. I, p. 103. 
3 Letter of Secretary of War to Return J. Meigs, in Indian Office records. 
4Dated October 20, 1802. 
> Commissioner Meigs mentions that the accompanying plat and field notes of Mr. 
Freeman, the surveyor, will give more abundant details regarding this survey. After 
a careful search, however, no trace has been found among the Indian Office records 
