ROYCE. ] TREATY OF OCTOBER 24, 1804. 183 
gion the tract in question was found to be within the limits of North 
Carolina. 
Yellow Creek settlement.—After that portion of the boundary of the 
country ceded by the treaty of 1798 which extended along the foot of 
Cumberland Mountain until it intersected ‘‘ Campbell’s Line” had been 
surveyed, complaint was made by certain settlers on Yellow Creek that 
by the action of the surveyors in not prolonging the line to its true 
point of termination, their homes had been left within the Indian country. 
Thereupon the Secretary of War instructed Agent Meigs! to go in 
person and examine the line as surveyed with a view to ascertaining 
the truth concerning the complaints. 
It was ascertained that the “ point” of Campbell’s Line was not on 
Cumberland Mountain proper, but on the ridge immediately east thereof, 
known as Poor Valley Ridge. This ridge is nearly as lofty as the main 
range, and Colonel Campbell, in approaching it from the east, had mis- 
taken it for that range and established his terminal point accordingly. 
The surveyors under the treaty of 1798, assuming the correctness of Col- 
onel Campbell’s survey, had made the line of their survey close thereon. 
By such action the Indian boundary in that locality was extended 332 
poles further to the east than would have been the case had the true 
reading of the treaty been followed. 
A number of families of settlers on Yellow Creek, together with a tract 
of about 2,500 acres of land, were thus unfortunately left within the 
Indian country. All efforts of Agent Meigs to secure a relinquishment 
of this strip of territory from the Indians were, however, ineffectual.” 
TREATY CONCLUDED OCTOBER 24, 1804; PROCLAIMED MAY 17, 1824.3 
Held at “ Tellico Block House,” Tennessee, between Daniel Smith and Re- 
turn J. Meigs, commissioners on the part of the United States, and the 
principal chiefs representing the Cherokee Nation. 
MATERIAL PROVISIONS. 
It is agreed and stipulated that — 
1. The Cherokee Nation relinquish and cede to the United States a 
tract of land bounding southerly on the boundary line between the State 
of Georgia and the Cherokee Nation, beginning at a point on the said 
boundary line northeasterly of the most northeast plantation in the set- 
tlement known by the name of Wafford’s Settlement, and running at 
right angles with the said boundary line 4 miles into the Cherokee land, 
thence at right angles southwesterly and parallel to the first mentioned 
boundary line so far as that a line to be run at right angles southerly to 

‘February 7, 1803. See Indian Office records. 
2 See report of Agent Return J. Meigs to the Secretary of War, May 5, 1503, on file in 
the Office of Indian Affairs. 
* United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 228. 
