The Annals Of Tennessee

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"To avoid Indian resentment and to prevent hostilities on the part of the Cherokees, the Superintendent of Southern Indian Affairs took measures to establish a new boundary further West. The treaty of Lochaber was signed on the 18th of October 1770 by the council of the chiefs, warriors, and head men of the Cherokee nation. The new line commenced on the south branch of Holston river six miles east of Long Island, thence to the mouth of the Great Kenhawa.  This boundary the western limit of the frontier settlements of Virginia and North Carolina was a feeble barrier against the approaches of the emigrants who came in greatly increased numbers to the West"

 

See Lochaber Plantation