[59] United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 39.

[60] See resolution of Georgia legislature, June 16, 1802. It is however stated by Return J. Meigs, in a letter to the Secretary of War dated December 20, 1811, that this line was run by Colonel Hawkins in 1797.

[61] American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 38.

[62] United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 39.

[63] American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 44.

[64] Protest of Col. William Blount to Treaty Commissioners of 1785. American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 44, and Ramsey's Annals of Tenn., p. 549. Also Scott's Laws of Tennessee and North Carolina, Vol. I.

[65] American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 38.

[66] Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee, p. 345.

[67] American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 53.

[68] Ib., p. 83.