ROYCE. | TREATY OF JANUARY 7, 1806. 193 
land Mountain, and to the 1 mile square on the north bank of the Tennes- 
see River, where Cherokee Talootiske lived. The first mentioned tract 
was also intended for the benefit of Doublehead, who leased it Feb- 
ruary 19, 1806, to Thomas H. Clark for twenty years. Before the expi- 
ration of the lease Doublehead was killed by some of his own people. 
December 10, 1820, the State of Tennessee assumed to grant the tract 
to Clark. ! 
The other two tracts alluded to of one square mile each were in- 
tended for Cherokee Talootiske. May 31, 1808, Talootiske perpetually 
leased his interest in the Cumberland Mountain tract to Thomas H. 
Clark. September 17, 1816, Clark purchased the interest of Robert 
Bell in the same tract, the latter deriving his alleged title under a 
grant from North Carolina to A. McCoy in July, 1793. This tract was 
also included in a grant from North Carolina to J. W. Lackey and 
Starkey Donaldson, dated January 4, 1795. The tract on Tennessee 
River, Talootiske sold to Robert King, whose assigns also claimed the 
title under the aforesaid grant from North Carolina to Lackey and Don- 
aldson.! 
From the phraseology of the treaty in making these several reserya- 
tions, it was concluded advisable in subsequent negotiations to secure 
a relinquishment of the tribal title thereto, which was done by the treaty 
of July 18, 1817. 
TREATY CONCLUDED JANUARY 7, 1806; PROCLAIMED MAY 23, 1807.2 
Held at Washington City, D. C., between Henry Dearborn, Secretary of War, 
specially authorized thereto by the President of the United States, and cer- 
tain chiefs and headmen of the Cherokee Nation, duly authorized and 
empowered by said nation. 
MATERIAL PROVISIONS. 
1. The Cherokees relinquish to the United States all claim to “all 
that tract of country which lies to the northward of the river Tennessee 
and westward of a line to be run from the upper part of Chickasaw Old 
Fields, at the upper point of an island called Chickasaw Island on said 
river, to the most easterly head-waters of that branch of said Tennes- 
see River called Duck River, excepting the two following described 
tracts, viz: one tract bounded southerly on the said Tennessee River, 
at a place called the Muscle Shoals; westerly, by a creek called Te Kee, 
ta, no-eh, or Cyprus Creek, and easterly, by Chu, wa, lee, or Elk River 
or Creek, and northerly by a line to be drawn from a point on said Elk 
River, ten miles on a direct line from its mouth * * * toa point on 
the said Cyprus Creek, ten miles on a direct line from its junction with 
See report of Commissioner Indian Affairs to Secretary of War, December 9, 1834. 
* United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 101. 
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