ROYCE | TREATY OF DECEMBER 2), 1835. PAO 
firmly refused to revoke his action.!. The Cherokees were equally dis- 
satisfied with the decision, because the line was not fixed as far south 
as Buzzard’s Roost, in accordance with the agreement of 1821 between 
themselves and the Creeks.” 

' Secretary of War to Governor Gilmer, of Georgia, June 1, 1830. 
* The following paper, which is on file in the Office of Indian Affairs, is interesting 
in connection with the subject matter of this boundary : 
Extract from treaties and other documents relative to the Cherokee lines in con- 
tact with the Creeks and Chickasaws west of Coosa River: 
« June 10, 1786.—In the treaty of this date with the Chickasaws the lands allotted 
them eastwardly ‘shall be the lands allotted to the Choctaws and Cherokees to live 
and hunt on.’ In the conference which took place between the commissioners of the 
United States and the Chickasaws and Cherokees, it was apparent that their claims 
conflicted with each other on the ridge dividing the waters of Cumberland from those 
of Duck River and around to the Chickasaw Oldtown Creek on Tennessee, thence 
southwardly, leaving the mountains above the Muscle Shoals on the south side of the 
river, and to a large stone or flat rock, where the Choctaw line joined with the Chicka- 
saws. The journal of occurrences at the time were lodged with the papers of the 
old Congress, and probably were transferred to the office of Secretary of State. On 
the 7th of January, 1506, in a convention between the United States and Cherokees, 
on the part of the former by Mr. Dearborn, the United States engaged to use their 
best endeavors to fix a boundary between the Cherokees and Chickasaws, ‘ beginning 
at the mouth of Caney Creek, near the lower part of the Muscle Shoals, and to run 
up the said creek to its head, and in a direct line from thence to the flat stone or 
rock, the old corner boundary,’ the line between the Creeks and Cherokees east of 
Coosau River. 
“Tn 1802, at the treaty of Fort Wilkinson, it was agreed between the parties that the 
line was ‘from the High Shoals on Apalatche, the old path, leaving Stone Mountain 
to the Creeks, to the shallow ford on the Chatahoochee.’ 
“This agreement was in presence of the commissioners of the United States and 
witnessed by General Pickens and Colonel Hawkins. On the 10th October, 1809, a 
letter was sent from the Cherokees to the Creeks and received in February in the 
public square at Tookaubatche, stating the line agreed upon at Fort Wilkinson, and 
that ‘all the waters of Etowah down to the ten islands below Turkeytown these 
lands were given up to the Cherokees at a talk at Chestoe in presence of the Little 
Prince, and Tustunnuggee Thlucco Chulioah, of Turkeystown, was the interpreter.’ 
“Tn August, 1814, at the treaty of Fort Jackson, the Creeks and Cherokees were in- 
vited to settle their claims, and Colonel Meigs was engaged for three or four days in 
aiding them to do so. The result was they could not agree, but would at some con- 
venient period agree. This was signed by General Jackson, Colonel Hawkins, and 
Colonel Meigs. 
“At the convention with the Creeks, in September, 1815, the Cherokees manifested 
a sincere desire to settle their boundaries with the Creeks, but the latter first declined 
and then refused. Tustunnuggee Thlucco, being asked where their boundary was 
west of Coosau, said there never was any boundary fixed and known as such between the 
parties, and after making Tennessee the boundary from tradition, and that the Chero- 
kees obtained leave of them to cross it, the policy of the Creeks receiving all de- 
stroyed red people in their confederacy, the Cherokees were permitted to come over 
and settle as low down on the west of Coosan as Hauluthee Hatchee, from thence on 
the west side of Coosau on all its waters to its source. He has never heard, and he 
has examined all his people who can have any knowledge on the subject, that the 
Cherokees had any pretensions lower down Coosau on that side. He does not believe, 
and he has never heard, there was any boundary agreed upon between them. Being 
asked by Celonel Hawkins his opinion where the boundary should be, he says it 
