the new friendship,
Lieutenant Henry Timberlake, a young Virginian who had already dis-
tinguished himself in active service, volunteered to return with them to
their towns, where he spent several months. He afterward conducted
a delegation of chiefs to England, where, as they had come without
authority from the Government, they met such an unpleasant recep-
tion that they returned disgusted. '
On the conclusion of peace between England and France in 1 T • *► : ; . by
which the whole western territory was ceded to England, a great
council was held at Augusta, which was attended by the chiefs and
principal men of all the southern Indians, at which Captain John
Stuart, superintendent for the southern tribes, together with the colo-
nial governors of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and ( reor
gia, explained fully to the Indiansthe new condition of affairs, and a
treaty of mutual peace and friendship was concluded on November 10
of that year. :
Under several leaders, as Walker, W alien, Smith, and Boon, the tide
of emigration now surged across the mountains in spite of every efforl
to restrain it. 4 and the period between the end of the Cherokee war
and the opening of the Revolution is principally notable for a number
of treaty cessions by the Indians, each in fruitless endeavor to tix a
permanent barrier between themselves and the advancing wave of
white settlement. Chief among these was the famous Henderson pur-
\/ chase in 1775, which included the whole tract between the Kentucky
and Cumberland rivers, embracing the greater part of the present
state of Kentucky. By these treaties the Cherokee were shorn of
practically all their ancient