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on the south side of the Tennessee River, which is opposite the Chicka: 
saw Island; running from thence a due south course to the top of the 
dividing ridge between the waters of the Tennessee and Tombigby 
tivers; thence eastwardly along said ridge, leaving the headwaters of 
the Black Warrior to the right hand until opposed by the west branch 
of Wells’ Creek; down the east bank of said creek to the Coosa River, 
and down said river. 
3. The Cherokees cede all claim to land south and west of the above 
line In consideration for such cession the United States agree to pay 
an annuity of $6,000 for ten years and the sum of $5,000 within sixty 
days after ratification of the treaty. 
4. The boundary line above described, after due notice given to the 
Cherokees, shall be ascertained and marked by commissioners appointed 
by the President, accompanied by two representatives of the Cherokee 
Nation. 
5. The Cherokee Nation agree to meet the United States treaty com- 
missioners at Turkeytown, on Coosa River, September 28, 1816, to 
confirm or reject said tieaty ; a failure to so meet the commissioners 
to be equivalent to ratification. 
Ratified at Turkeytown by the whole Cherokee Nation, October 4, 
1816. 
HISTORICAL DATA. 
FURTHER PURCHASE OF CHEROKEE LANDS. 
On the 27th of May, 1816, theSecretary of War instructed Agent Meigs 
to endeavor, at the next session of the national council of the Cherokees, 
to obtain a cession of the Cherokee claim north of Tennessee River 
within the State of Tennessee. For this proposed cession he was au- 
thorized to pay $20,000, in one or more payments, and $5,000 in pres- 
ents; alsoto give Colonel Lowry, an influential chief among them, a sum 
equal to the value of his improvements.1 
He was further instructed to make an effort to secure the cession of 
the lands which they had declined to sell the previous winter and which 
lay to the west of a line drawn due south from that point of the Tennes- 
see River intersected by the eastern boundary of Madison County. Ala- 
bama. 
The necessity for these cessions, and especially that of the former 
tract, had been urged upon the Government of the United States by 
the legislature and by the citizens of Tennessee, many of whom had 
been purchasers of land within its limits, from the State of North Caro- 
lina, a quarter of a century previous, and who had been restrained 
from possession and occupancy of the same by the United States au- 
thorities so long as the Indian title remained unextinguished. In the 

