ROYCE. ] TREATIES OF OCTOBER 25 AND 27, 1805. 191 
Secret agreement with Doublehead.—Following the transmission of the 
treaties to the Secretary of War by the commissioners, the latter ad- 
dressed! an explanatory communication to him, in which they set forth 
that by the terms of the treaty of October 25, 1805, there were reserved 
three square miles of land, “ for the particular disposal of the United 
States, on the north bank of the Tennessee, opposite and below the 
mouth of Hiwassa.” This reservation, they affirmed, was predicated 
ostensibly on the supposition that the garrison at Southwest Point and 
the United States factory at Tellico would be placed thereon during 
the pleasure of the United States, but that they had stipulated with 
** Doublehead,” a Cherokee chief, that whenever the United States 
should find this land unnecessary for the purposes mentioned it was to 
revert to him (Doublehead), provided that he should retain one of the 
square miles to his own use, but should relinquish his right and claim 
to the other two sections in favor of John D. Chisholm aud John Riley 
in equal shares. 
Purchase of site for State capital—The cession by the treaty of Octo- 
ber 27, 1805, of the section of land at Southwest Point was secured upon 
the theory that the State of Tennessee would find Kingston a convenient 
and desirable place for the establishment of the State capital. A sub- 
sequent change of circumstances and public sentiment, however, caused 
it to be located seven years later at Nashville. 
Boundaries surveyed.—On the 11th of July, 1806, the Secretary of War 
notified Return J. Meigs of his appointment as commissioner to super- 
intend the running and marking of the line ‘‘from the junction of the 
fork at the head of which Fort Nash stood with the main south fork 
of Duck River to a point on the Tennessee River bank opposite the 
mouth of Hiwassee River.” He was also to superintend the survey of 
the lines of the reserved tracts agreeably to the treaty of October 25, 
1805. 
He was directed to appoint a surveyor, but before running the line 
from Duck to Tennessee Rivers above described, to have him survey 
and mark the lines of the 3-mile tract reserved opposite to and below 
the mouth of Hiwassee, and also, when completed, to designate the most 
suitable site for the military post, factory, and agency, each site to be 
500 feet square and 40 rods distant from the others. 
Commissioner Meigs followed the letter of his instructions and caused 
the lines to be surveyed in accordance therewith. The line from Duck 
River to the mouth of Hiwassee was begun on the 9th and finished on 
the 26th of October, 1806. The point of departure at the west end of 
the boundary line was a red elm tree, trimmed and topped, standing on 
the extreme point of land formed by the confluence of that branch of 
Duck River at the head of which Fort Nash stood, with the main south 
fork of the river. The eastern terminus of the line was a mulberry tree 

1 January 10, 1806. 
