This Day in Chickamauga History - January 10
1795, January 10: Enclosed Journal of Peace Treaty Council - Enclosed journal of the proceedings between Cherokee chiefs and Blount which ended with peace agreement. Objective of meeting was to convince Cherokees to terminate friendship between their nation and the Creek Nation. - Notable Person/Group: Bloody Fellow, Watts – Notable Location: Tellico Block House, Lower Towns - https://wardepartmentpapers.org/s/home/item/49134
1809, January 10: Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Cherokee Nation - your young men however are not yet sufficiently sensible of it. some of them cross the Missisipi to go & destroy people who never did them an injury. my children, this is wrong, & must not be. if we permit them to cross the Missisipi to war with the Indians on the other side of that river, we must let those Indians cross the river to take revenge on you. I say again, this must not be. the Missipi now belongs to us. it must not be a river of blood. it is now the water-path along which all our people of Natchez, St. Louis, Indiana, Ohio, Tennissee, Kentucky, and the Western parts of Pennsylva. & Virginia are constantly passing with their property to & from N. Orleans. young men going to war are not easily restrained. finding our people on the river, they will rob them, perhaps kill them. this would bring on a war between us and you. it is better to stop this in time, by forbidding your young people to go across the river to make war. if they go to visit, or to live with the Cherokees on the other side of the river, we shall not object to that. that country is ours. we will permit them to live in it. - https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-2979
1809, January 10: Tahlonteskee and seventeen followers came upriver to Hiwassee and presented Meigs with a list of Lower Town Cherokees who wished to move over the Mississippi under the conditions agreed upon with President Jefferson in Washington. Jefferson encouraged the Chickamauga to go West because Blount was prepared to send in the militias to quell the civil war between the Chickamauga and the various Cherokee Nations. The list was a long one of 1,023 people, including 386 men and 637 women and children. Later, an additional 107 Cherokees joined the group as it made preparations to move20 that included 1,273 black cattle, 369 horses, 868 hogs, 46 spinning wheels, 13 looms, 36 plows, and other smaller items. They also took along 68 black slaves.21
21 Passport signed by Return J. Meigs, January 10, 1810 American Register or General Repository of History, Politics, and Science, 6:316-18.