186 CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
Seeretary of War that he had been mistaken as to part of the line be- 
tween the United States and the Cherokees. He therefore directed that 
the second object of their instructions should be suspended as regarded 
both the Cherokees and the Chickasaws. Commissioner Davie having 
declined his appointment, General Andrew Pickens was substituted 
in his stead.! 
Failure of negotiations.—It is only necessary to observe that the com- 
missioners failed in the accomplishment of any of their designs with 
the Cherokees. 
WAFKORD’S SETTLEMENT. 
Prior to the survey and marking of the boundary line near UCurrahee 
Mountain in Georgia, provided for by the Cherokee treaty of 1785 and 
the Creek treaty of 1790, which survey did not occur until 1798, one 
Colonel Watford, in company with sundry other persons, had formed a 
settlement in that vicinity, which proved to be within the limits of the 
Indian country. 
Inasmuch as it was supposed these parties had ignorantly placed 
themselves within the Indian line and had made considerable and val- 
uable improvements, the Government was indisposed to use harsh or 
forcible means for their ejection, but rather approved of the urgent ap- 
peals from Colonel Wafford and his neighbors to make an effort to 
secure the relinquishment from the Indians of a tract sufficient to em- 
brace their settlement. 
The Government had been laboring under the impression that these 
lands belonged to the Creeks, but the delegation of the Cherokees, 
headed by “The Glass,” who visited Washington in the summer of 1801, 
claimed them as Cherokee territory, and asked for the removal of the 
settlers. Commissioners Wilkinson, Hawkins, and Pickens had been 
instructed? to negotiate with the Creeks for the purchase of this tract, 
but they having reported, upon examination, that the title was un- 
doubtedly in the Cherokees, were directed’ to report upon the expe- 
diency of applying to the Cherokees for a cession of the same. 
Such an application having at this time been unfavorably received 
by the Cherokees, nothing further was done in the matter until the 
winter of 1803, when the Secretary of War directed a conference to be 
held with them for the double purpose of securing a cession or a lease for 
seven years of the ** Wafford Settlement” tract and the Indian consent to 
aright of way fora road through their country from Southwest Point or 
Tellico Factory to Athens, Ga., with the establishment of the neces- 
sary houses of entertainment for travelers along such route. For this 
latter concession he was authorized to offer them the sum of $500. The 

1 July 16, 1801. See Indian Office records. 
2 July 17,1801. See Indian Office records. 
’ June 10,1802. See Indian Office records. 
*February 19, 1803. See Indian Office records. 
