Treaty with The Cherokee
March 22, 1816
Articles of a treaty made and concluded at the City of
Washington, on the twenty-second day of March, one thousand
eight hundred and sixteen, between George Graham, being specially
authorized by the President of the United States thereto,
and the undersigned Chiefs and Headmen of the Cherokee Nation,
duly authorized and empowered by the said Nation.
Article 1.
Whereas the Executive of the State of South Carolina has
made an application to the President of the United States
to extinguish the claim of the Cherokee nation to that part
of their lands which lie within the boundaries of the said
State, as lately established and agreed upon between that
State and the State of North Carolina; and as the Cherokee
nation is disposed to comply with the wishes of their brothers
of South Carolina, they have agreed and do hereby agree to
cede to the State of South Carolina, and forever quit claim
to, the tract of country contained within the following bounds,
viz.: beginning on the east bank of the Chattuga river, where
the boundary line of the Cherokee nation crosses the same
running thence, with the said boundary line, to a rock on
the Blue Ridge, where the boundary line crosses the same,
and which rock has been lately established as a corner to
the States of North and South Carolina; running thence, south,
sixty-eight and a quarter degrees west, twenty miles and thirty-two
chains, to a rock on the Chattuga river at the thirty-fifth
degree of north latitude, another corner of the boundaries
agreed upon by the State of North and South Carolina; thence,
down and with the Chattuga, to the beginning.
Article 2.
For and in consideration of the above cession, the United
States promise and engage that the State of South Carolina
shall pay to the Cherokee nation, or its accredited agent,
the sum of five thousand dollars, within ninety days after
the President and Senate shall have ratified this treaty:
Provided, That the Cherokee nation shall have sanctioned the
same in Council: And provided also, That the Executive of
the State of South Carolina shall approve of the stipulations
contained in this article.
In testimony whereof, the said commissioner, and the undersigned
chiefs and head men of the Cherokee nation, have hereto set
their hands and seals.
- George Graham, [L. S.]
- Colonel John Lowry, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Major John Walker, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Major Ridge, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Richard Taylor, [L. S.]
- John Ross, [L. S.]
- Cheucunsene, his x mark, [L. S.]
Witnesses present at signing and sealing:
- Return J. Meigs,
- Jacob Laub,
- Gid. Davis.
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