MAP
OF THE FORMER
TERRITORIAL LIMITS
OF THE
CHEROKEE "NATION OF" INDIANS
EXHIBITING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE VARIOUS
CESSIONS
OF LAND MADE BY THEM TO THE
COLONIES AND TO THE UNITED STATES
BY TREATY STIPULATIONS, FROM THE BEGINNING OF THEIR RELATIONS
WITH THE WHITES TO THE DATE OF THEIR REMOVAL
WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
BY
C. C. ROYCE.
1894.
MAP
SHOWING THE
TERRITORY ORIGINALLY ASSIGNED
TO THE CHEROKEE "NATION OF" INDIANS WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
ALSO THE BOUNDARIES
OF THE
TERRITORY NOW OCCUPIED OR OWNED BY THEM.
BY
C. C. ROYCE.
1894.
Footnotes
2. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 18.
3. I am informed by Colonel Bushyhead, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, that Bartram is mistaken in his latter assumption. The letter "r" was never used except among the Overhill Cherokees, and occurred very infrequently with them.
4. The full title of this work is "Descriptionis Ptolemaicæ Augmentum; sive Occidentis Notitia, brevi commentario illustrata, studio et opera, Cornely Wytfliet, Louaniensis. Lovanii, Typis Iohannis Bogardi, anno Domini MDXCVII."
5. Campbell's Virginia, p. 268.
6. Logan's South Carolina, Vol. I, p. 168.
7. Martin's North Carolina, Vol. I, p. 194.
8. Logan's South Carolina, Vol. I, p. 141.
9. Logan's South Carolina, Vol. I, p. 182.
10. Adair's American Indians.
11. Report Commissioner Indian Affairs for 1883, p. 272.
12. Bartram's Travels in North America from 1773 to 1778, p. 371.
13. From a distribution roll of Cherokee annuities paid in the year 1799 it appears that there were then 51 Cherokee towns, designated as follows: Oostinawley, Creek Path, Aumoia, Nicojack, Running Water, Ellijay, Cabben, High Tower, Pine Log, High Tower Forks, Tocoah, Coosawaytee, Crowtown, Shoemeck, Aumuchee, Tulloolah, Willstown, Acohee, Cuclon, Duck-town, Ailigulsha, Highwassee, Tennessee, Lookout Mountain, Noyohee, Tusquittee, Coosa, Nantiyallee, Saukee, Keyukee, Red Bank, Nukeza, Cowpens, Telassee, Buffalo Town, Little Tellico, Rabbit Trap, Notley, Turnip Mountain, Sallicoah, Kautika, Tausitu, Watoga, Cowee, Chillhoway, Chestuee, Turkey Town, Toquah, Chota, Big Tellico, and Tusskegee.
14. Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee, p. 46.
15. Martin's North Carolina, Vol. II, pp. 3, 9, and 11.
16. Hewat's History of South Carolina and Georgia, Vol. II, pp. 203, 204.
17. Broad River was formerly known as Eswaw-Huppedaw or Line River. See Mills' Statistics of South Carolina, p. 555.
18. Williamson's North Carolina, Vol. II, p. 87.
19. Martin's North Carolina. Vol. II, p. 87.
20. Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee, p. 68.
21. Martin's North Carolina, Vol. II, p. 106.
22. Ib., Vol. II, p. 152.
23. Ib., Vol. II, p. 226.
24. Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee, p. 76.
25. Ib., p. 102.