mill and cotton gin, and a life annuity
1 Indian treaties, pp.108, 121, 125, 1837; Royce, Cherokee Nation, Fifth Ann. Rep. Bureau of Ethnol-
ogy, pp. 183 193, 1888 (map and full discussion I.
-McKenney and Hall, Indian Tribes, n, p. 92, 1858.
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of one hundred dollars for Black-fox, the aged head chief of the nation.
The signers of the instrument, including Doublehead and Tollunteeskee,
were accompanied to Washington by the same commissioners who had
procured the previous treaty. In consequence of some misunderstand
ing, the boundaries <>l' the ceded trad were Mill further extended in a
supple ntary treaty concluded at the Chickasaw Old Fields on the
Tennessee, on September 11. L807. As the country between Duck
river and the Tennessee was claimed also by t In- Chickasaw, their title
was extinguished by separatetreaties.' The ostensible compensation
for this lust Cherokee cession, as shown by the treaty, was two thou
sand dollars, but it was secretly agreed by Agent Meigs that what he
calls a "silenl consideration" of one thousand dollars and some rifles
should be given to the chiefs who signed it. ;
In L807 Colonel Elias Earle, with the consent of the Government,
obtained a concession from the Cherokee for the establishment of iron
works at the mouth of Chickamauga creek, on the south side of Ten-
nessee river, to be supplied from ores mined in the Cherokee country.
It was hoped that this would be a considerable step toward the civili-
zation of the Indians, besides enabling the Government to obtain its
supplies of manufactured iron at a cheaper rate, hut after prolonged
effort the project was finally abandoned on