rest of the summer was spent in negotiation alone' the linos
already proposed, and on October 2, L798, a treaty, commonly known
as the "first treaty of Tellico." was concluded*at the same place, and
was signed by thirty-nine chiefs on behalf of the Cherokee. By this
t reaty the Indians ceded a tract between ( !linch river and the Cumber-
land ridge, another alone- the northern hank of Little Tennessee
extending up to Chilhowee mountain, and a third in North Carolina mi
the heads of French Broad and Pigeon rivers and including the sites
i Royce, Cherokee Nation, Fifth Ann Rep. Bureau of Ethnology, p. IT:;, 1888
s Ibid., pp. 174,175; Ramsey, Tennessee, pp ''7'.' • -
mooxey] CONDITION OF CHEROKEE IX 1800 81
of the present Waynesville and Hendersonville. These cessions
included most or all of the lands fromwhich settlers had been ejected.
Permission was also given for laying out the "Cumberland road." to
connect the east Tennessee settlements with those about Nashville. In
consideration of the lands and rights surrendered, the United States
agreed to deliver to the Cherokee five thousand dollars in goods, and
to increase their existing annuity by one thousand dollars, and as usual,
to •■continue the guarantee of the remainder of their country forever."'
Wayne's victory over the northern tribes at the battle of the Mau-
niee rapids completely broke their power and compelled them to accept
the terms of peace dictated at the treaty of Greenville in the summer
of 1795. The immediate result was the surrender of the Ohio river
boundary by the Indians and the withdrawal of the British garrisons
from the interior posts, which up to this time they