194 CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
the Tennessee River. The other tract is to be two miles in width on the 
north side of Tennessee River, and to extend northerly from that river 
three miles, and bounded as follows, viz: Beginning at the mouth of 
Spring Creek and running up said creek three miles on a straight line; 
thence westerly two miles at right angles with the general course of said 
ereek ; thence southerly on a line parallel with the general course of 
said creek to the Tennessee River; thence up said river by its waters 
to the beginning, which first reserved tract is to be considered the com- 
mon property of the Cherokees who now live on the same, including 
John D. Chesholm, Au, tow, we, and Cheh Chuh, and the other reserved 
tract, on which Moses Melton now lives, is to be considered the property 
of said Melton and of Charles Hicks, in equal shares. * * * Also 
relinquish * * * all right or claim * * * tothe Long Island 
in Holston River.” 
2. The United States agree to pay, in consideration of the foregoing 
cession, $2,000 in money upon the ratification of the treaty; $5,000 in 
four equal annual installments; to erect a grist-mill within one year in 
the Cherokee country; to furnish a machine for cleaning cotton; and to 
pay the Cherokee chief, Black Fox, $100 annually during his life. 
3. The United States agree to urge upon the Chickasaws to consent 
to the following boundary between that nation and the Cherokees south 
of Tennessee River, viz: Beginning at the mouth of Caney Creek near 
the lower part of Muscle Shoals, and run up said creek to its head, and 
in a direct line from thence to the Flat Stone, or Rock, the old corner 
boundary. 
4, The United States agree that the claims of the Chickasaws to the 
two tracts reserved by article 1 of this treaty, on north side of the Ten- 
nessee River, shall be settled by the United States in such manner as 
will secure the title to the Cherokees. 
TREATY CONCLUDED SEPTEMBER 11, 1807; PROCLAIMED APRIL 
22, 1808.! 
Held at upper end of Chickasaw Island, in Tennessee River, between James 
Robertson and Return J. Meigs, acting under authority of the Executive 
of the United States, and a delegation of Cherokee chiefs representing said 
nation. 
MATERIAL PROVISIONS. 
This treaty is simply an elucidation of the first article of the treaty 
of January 7, 1806, and declares that the eastern limits of the tract ceded 
by the latter treaty “shall be bounded by a line so to be run from the 
upper end of the Chickasaw Old Fields, a little above the upper point 
of an island, called Chickasaw Island, as will most directly intersect 
the first waters of Elk River; thence carried to the great Cumberland 

1United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 103. 
