[139] April 4, 1804.
[140] October 10, 1804. See letter of Daniel Smith to Secretary of War, October 31, 1804.
[141] October 31, 1804.
[142] Commissioner Smith in his letter of October 31, 1804, to the Secretary of War, states that two persons on the part of the United States, to be accompanied by two Cherokee chiefs, had been designated to run the boundaries of this cession. The propriety was then urged on the Cherokees by the commissioners of making a cession of the lands lying between East and West Tennessee. Several days were consumed in urging this proposal, and a majority of the chiefs were probably in favor of it, but Commissioner Smith remarks that a majority, unless it amounts almost to unanimity, is not considered with them sufficient to determine in matters of great interest, particularly in making cessions of lands.
[143] December 20, 1811.
[144] It is stated in a resolution of the Georgia legislature, passed June 16, 1802, that this line was surveyed by Colonel Hawkins in 1798.
[145] The letter of the Cherokee delegation calling attention to this matter is dated January 19, 1824.
[146] February 6, 1824.
[147] April 15, 1824.
[148] April 30,1824.