at least any further resistance was hopeless, and they were
compelled to sue for peace.
By a treaty concluded at De Witts Corners in South Carolina on May
•Jo. 1777. the first ever made with the new states, the Lower Cherokee
surrendered to the conqueror all of their remaining territory in South
Carolina, excepting a narrow strip along the western boundary. Just
two months later, on July 20, by treaty at the Long island, as had been
arranged by Christian in the preceding fall, the Middle and Upper
Cherokee ceded everything east of the Blue ridge, together with all
the disputed territory on the 'Watauga. Nolichucky, upper Holston,
and New rivers. By this second treaty also Captain James Robertson
was appointed agent for the Cherokee, to reside at Echota. to watch
their movements, recover any captured property, and prevent their
correspondencewith persons unfriendly to the American cause. As
the Federal government was not yet in perfect operation these treaties
i Moore's narrative, in North Carolina University Magazine. February, 1888.
^Roosevelt, Winning of the West, i. pp. 285, 290, 303, 1889.
'About rive hundred sought refuge with Stuart, the British Indian superintendent in Florida,
where they were fed for some time at the expense of the British government (Jones, Georgia, II,
p. 246, 1S83).
54 MYTHS OF THE OHEEOKEE bth.akii.19
were negotiated by commissioners from the four states adjoining the
Cherokee country, the territory thus acquired being parceled oul to
Sou tli ( iarolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee. 1
While tlif Cherokee Nation had thus been compelled to a treaty of
peace, a very considerable portion of the tribe was irreconcilably hos-
tile to the Americans and refused to be a party