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were sent to the council called by him. Among others, the one he 

 called Tunissee was undoubtedly the Tennessee of Sir Alexander 

 Cuming's report. 



In 1756 Fort Dobbs was built near the Yadkin after an agreement 

 by Colonel Waddle, acting for North Carolina and Atta-Culla-Culla, 

 Chief of the Over Hill Cherokee on Little Kiver, who was by Timber- 

 lake called the "Emperor" of the Cherokee Nation. About this time, 

 as stated by Kamsey : 



* * * A friendly message was received by Governor Glen from the chief 

 warriors of the Over-hill Settlements in the Cherokee nation, acquainting him 

 that 



Some Frenchmen and their allies were among their people, endeavoring to 

 poison their minds, and that it would be necessary to hold a general congress 

 with the nation, and renew their former treaties of friendship. Accordingly, 

 the governor appointed a time and place for holding a treaty. 



Governor Glen needed no argument to convince him that an alliance with 

 such a tribe was, under present circumstances, essential to the security of 

 South-Carolina and her sister provinces, and, accordingly, in 1755, he met the 

 Cherokee warriors and chiefs in their own country. 



At this treaty a large cession of territory was made to the king, and deeds 

 of conveyance were formally executed by the head men, in the name of the 

 whole people. 



Soon after this session, Governor Glen built Fort Prince George upon the 

 Savannah, near its source, and three hundred miles from Charleston, and 

 within gunshot of an Indian town, called Keowee. It contained barracks for 

 one hundred men, and was well mounted with cannon, and designed for a 

 defense of the western frontier of the province. 



The earl of Loudon, who had been appointed commander of the king's troops 

 in America, and governor of the province of Virginia, came over in the spring 

 of this year. He sent Andrew Lewis to build another fort on Tennessee River, 

 on the southern bank, at the highest point of its navigation, nearly opposite to 

 the spot on which Tellico Block House has since been placed, and about thirty 

 miles from the present town of Knoxville; the fort was called in honour of 

 the earl, Fort Loudon. Lewis informed Governor Dobbs that, on his arrival 

 at Chota, he had received the kindest usage from Old Hop, the Little Carpenter, 

 and that the Indians in general expressed their readiness to comply with the 

 late treaty with the Virginia Commissioners (Byrd and Randolph). They 

 manifested this disposition while the fort was building; but when it was 

 finished, and they were pressed to fulfil their engagements, and send warriors 

 to Virginia, they equivocated. Lewis observed that the French and their Indian 

 allies, the Savannahs, kept a regular correspondence with the Cherokees, 

 especially those of the great town of Tellico. He expressed his opinion that 

 some scheme was on foot for the distress of the English back settlers, and that 

 the Cherokees greatly inclined to join the French. 23 



There is no need here to recite the sad fate which overtook Fort 

 Loudon and its garrison. The manner of its destruction in 1760 

 has been recorded by Haywood and many others. The loss of the 

 first English fort erected in the State of Tennessee at the time stimu- 



Ramsey, 1853, pp. 50-52. 



