was never dour.
The Chickamauga band, however, and those farther to the south.
were still Unit on war. being actively encouraged in that disposition
by the British agents and refugee loyalists living among them. They
continued to raid both north and south, and in September, 1782,
Sevier, with 200 mounted men, again made a descent upon their towns.
destroying several of their settlements about Chickamauga creek, and
penetrating as far as the important town of Ustana'li, on the head-
waters of Coosa river, near the present Calhoun. Georgia. This also
he destroyed. Every warrior found was killed, together with a white
man found in one of the towns, whose papers showed that he had been
active in inciting the Indians to war. On the return the expedition
halted at Echota. where new assurances were received from the
friendly element.* In themeantime a Georgia expedition of over -loo
men. under General Pickens, had been ravaging the Cherokee towns
in the same quarter, with such effect that the Cherokee were forced to
purchase peace by a further surrender of territory on the head of
Broad river in Georgia. 5 This cession was concluded at a treaty of
peace held with the Georgia commissioners at Augusta in the next
year, and was confirmed later by the Creeks, who claimed an interest
in the same lands, hut was never accepted by either as the voluntary
, act of their tribe as a whole."
By the preliminary treaty of Paris. November 30, 17nl'. the long
Revolutionary Si ruggle for independence was brought toa (dose, and the
Cherokee, a- well as the other tribes, seeing the hopelessness of con-
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