Minutes of the North Carolina Senate 1777

The Chickamauga Nation

February 10, 2025
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History

‍EDITORIAL: The State of Virginia acknowledges that the Overhill and Lower Town Cherokee are two different groups of people, not related, or they would have included the Lower Town's in the Treaty.

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Received from the House of Commons a Bill for amending an act intitled an act for levying a tax by assessment and other purposes passed the last Session of this Assembly.

Endorsed in the House of Commons 21 Dec., 1777. Read the third time and passed.

On motion resolved that an additional sum of ten pounds be allowed to each of the Judges of the Courts of Oyer and Terminer for every Court they have attended since the last Session of this Assembly, and that the Treasurers or either of them pay them the same and be allowed the same in settling their accounts with the public.

Resolved that His Excellency the Governor be requested to appoint Commissioners to run out and mark the boundary line with the Overhill Cherokees as the same was agreed upon and established by treaty in July last.

Resolved also that His Excellency the Governor be requested to appoint and commissionate proper persons to hold a treaty with Indians inhabiting the Towns of the middle settlement and valley and to agree upon and establish a boundary line with the said Indians and that the Governor be impowered to draw upon either of the Treasurers of this State for the sum of fifty pounds to enable the Commissioners to run out and mark the said boundary line with the Overhill Cherokees and also for the sum of one thousand pounds to enable the Commissioners to hold the said treaty.

Sam Ashe, S. S.

Ordered the following message be sent to the House of Commons:

Mr. Speaker & Gentlemen of the House of Commons:

We herewith send for your concurrence a resolve of this House ralative to a boundary line and treaty between this State and the Indians.

Sam Ashe, S. S.

On motion, resolved that no land shall be granted, surveyed or entered in the County of Washington westward of the boundary line with the Overhill Cherokees agreed upon at the treaty in July last and that all persons who shall go over the said line to settle upon or improve lands contrary to the articles of the said treaty, shall be considered as trespassers, and shall never be admitted to claim any preference by right of pre-occupancy in virtue of such improvements.

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(C) This document was produced at the request of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on July 18, 2019, to document the History, Anthropology, Culture, Religion, and Archaeology of The Chickamauga Nation.

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