Treaty-making

From The Kentuckians by Janet Holt Giles:

"Still, I thought it more than likely he (George Rogers Clark) was right about Arthur Campbell and Billy Russell.  Besides, both had been hand in glove with Colonel Henderson, along with the Robertson brothers, in the treaty-making."

Treaty Of Sycamore Shoals

Notices of Florida and the Campaigns

1836 Notices of Florida and the Campaigns....:

This treaty was signed Col. James Gadsden on the part of the United States, and by fifteen chiefs and head men from the vagabond Seminole nation. In a letter from Col. James Gadsden...he says I feel assured that they (Ecouchatti Micco and Mulatto King) will ultimately negotiate under the last stipulations of their compact relinquishing their lands and coming in as parties to the treaty of Payne's landing. There can be no difficulty on this subject, for they are a component part of the Seminole Nation, were parties to the treaty of Camp Moultrie... .

Treaty-Making At Sycamore Shoals

From The Kentuckians by Janet Holt Giles:

"I got to thinking how, a year ago almost exactly, I'd been at the Sycamore Shoals for the treaty-making."

Troubles With The Transylvania Company

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From The Kentuckians by Janet Holt Giles:


....troubles with the Transylvania Company.... .  The year of 1777, for instance, when there were but a hundred and twenty guns in the whole of Kentucky and the British were arming and agitating the Ohio Indians against us; when we were scattered in three little settlements....

The colonel [Henderson] has got a valid title if the crown recognizes it.  Virginia and North Carolina have both repudiated him, but he hasn't sought recognition from them and isn't depending on it.  He has bought the land from the Cherokees, and it's his opinion that under the terms of the treaty at Hard Labor it was recognized by Britain as belonging to them.  He intends to set up as a proprietor under the crown.  He's purchased the land from the mouth of the Kentucky River along the boundary of the Ohio to Powell Mountain, down the ridge of that mountain to the Cumberland River, and down the Cumberland to where it flows into the Ohio.  He's already starting entering claims in the name of his company, which he calls the Transylvania Company....

...Cap'n Clark is good friends with Patrick Henry and he said he was going to have a word with him about Colonel Henderson and try to find out which way the wind is blowing back there.

Fascinating Accounts Of Florida

Pioneers of the Old Southwest:...

Meanwhile fascinating accounts of the new land of Florida, ceded to Britain by the Treaty of Paris in 1763, had leaked into the Back Country; and in the winter of 1765 Boone set off southward on horseback with seven companions. Colonel James Grant, with whose army Boone had fought in 1761, had been appointed Governor of the new colony and was offering generous inducements to settlers. The party traveled along the borders of South Carolina and Georgia. No doubt they made the greater part of their way over the old Traders' Trace, the "whitened" warpath, and they suffered severe hardships. Game became scarcer as they proceeded. Once they were nigh to perishing of starvation and were saved from that fate only through chance meeting with a band of Indians who, seeing their plight, made camp and shared their food with them--according to the Indian code in time of peace.

Treaty Of Sycamore Shoals

Plaque Seen Near The Tweetsie Trail

FLOWERING of the CUMBERLAND by Harriette Simpson Arnow:

The following year, 1775, western settlement was given a further push when at the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals of the Watauga, Richard Henderson led his land company in treating with Attakullakulla and other Cherokee chiefs for a vast boundary of land that embraced most of the western two-thirds of Kentucky and the mid-section of what is now Tennessee or the Middle Cumberland Basin.

Before Kentucky Was A Commonwealth Of Its Own

From The Kentuckians:

"We can get it (a petition) wrote up in the next day or two, Jim said, and signed and then send it over to the Holston to Billy Russell and let him take it to the spring meeting of the Assembly at Williamsburg.  It was decided that way and the vote was taken to petition the Virginia Assembly in our favor.  They they named Jim and me and Isaac Hite to put it in writing."

"I got to thinking how, a year ago almost exactly, I'd been at the Sycamore Shoals for the treaty-making."

Still, I thought it more than likely he (George Rogers Clark) was right about Arthur Campbell and Billy Russell.  Besides, both had been hand in glove with Colonel Henderson, along with the Robertson brothers, in the treaty-making.

Rolled It Westward

From The Shawnee prisoner: a borderer's story, by Clara Florida Guernsey:

"The surrender of Cornwallis and the subsequent treaty of peace, so far from dispelling the cloud of war, only rolled it westward."

David Humphreys, Commissioner

Life and Times of David Humphreys: Soldier--statesman--poet, "belov'd of Washington,", Volume 2:

"The President sent on August 22, a message to Congress on this subject [of treaty violations]. As the three treaties recently made by Georgia with the Creek nation were not being observed, it was necessary for the government to ascertain reasons why their validity was disputed. He was of the opinion that a commission should be appointed... ."

"After this Conference he appointed three Commissioners for treating with the "Indians South of the Ohio," Gen. Lincoln of Massachusetts, one of his trusted officers in the Revolution and recently Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, Col. Humphreys, his former aide-de-camp, and the Hon. Cyrus Griffin of Virginia, the last President of the Continental Congress.... ."

Detroit After The Revolution

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From A Little Girl in Old Detroit, by Amanda Minnie Douglas:

After the war of the Revolution was ended all the country south of the Lakes was ceded to the United Colonies. But Detroit was still largely a French town or settlement, for thus far it had been a military post of importance. The French were largely agriculturists, though many inside the Fort traded carefully, but the English claimed much of this business afterward.

Captain [Moses] Porter was very busy restoring order. Wells had been filled with stones, windows broken, fortifications destroyed. Arthur St. Clair had been appointed Governor of the Territory, which was then a part of Illinois, but the headquarters were at Marietta. Little attention was paid to Detroit further than to recognize it as a center of trade... .