first of these the Cherokee ceded for five thousand dollars
their last remaining territory in South Carolina, a small strip in the
extreme northwestern corner, adjoining Chattooga river. By the sec-
ond treaty a boundary was established between the lands claimed by the
Cherokee and Creeks in northern Alabama. This action was made
necessary in order to determine the boundaries of the great tract
which the Creeks had been compelled to surrender in punishment for
their late uprising. The li no was run from a point on Little Bear
creek in northwestern Alabama direct to the Ten islands of the
Coosa at old Fort Strother, southeast of the present Asheville. Gen-
era] Jackson protested strongly against this line, on the ground that
all the territory south of Tennessee river and west of the Coosa
belonged to the Creeks and wasof the Tennessee, the Govern-
ment being especially desirous t" extinguish their claim north of thai
river within the- limit - of the state of Tennessee. Failing in this.
pressure was at once begun t<> bring about a cession in Alabama, with
the result thai on September 11 of the same year a treat] was con-
cluded at the Chickasaw council-house, and afterward ratified in gen-
eral council at Turkeytown on the Coosa, by which the Cherokee
ceded all their claims in thai state south of Tennessee river and wesl
of an irregular line running from Chickasaw island in thai stream,
below the entrance of Flint river, to the junction of Wills creek with
the Coosa, al the presenl Gadsden. For this cession, embracing an
area of nearlj three thousand five hundred square miles, they were to
receive sixty thousand