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The Treaty of Holston (or Treaty of the Holston) was a treaty between the United States government and the Cherokee signed on July 2, 1791, and proclaimed on February 7, 1792. It was negotiated and signed by William Blount , governor of the Southwest Territory and superintendent of Indian affairs for the southern district of the United States ...
1792 February 17 Treaty of Philadelphia: Additional article to the Treaty with the Cherokee 7 Stat. 42: Cherokee: 1792 April 23 Philadelphia Agreement: Agreement with the Five Nations of Indians Five Nations (Seneca, Oneida, Tuscarora, Cayuga, Onondaga) 1794 June 26 Treaty of Holston: Treaty with the Cherokee 7 Stat. 43: Cherokee: 1794 November 11
Treaty of Holston, 2 July 1791 Established boundaries between the United States and the Cherokee. Guaranteed by the United States that the lands of the Cherokee have not been ceded to the United States. Treaty of Philadelphia, 17 February 1792 Supplemented the previous Holston treaty regarding annuities, etc. Treaty of Walnut Hills, 10 April 1792
Territorial governor William Blount kept the militia on call for much of the early 1790s in order to protect settlers and enforce the terms of the Holston Treaty. John Sevier, who commanded part of the militia, encamped at Southwest Point in 1792. By November of that year, Sevier's troops had completed a blockhouse at the site, which they used ...
By the time of Dragging Canoe's death (January 29, 1792), the Cherokee settlements of the Lower Towns had increased from five to seven. The re-populated New Keowee was still the principal town of the region. [19] Up until 1794, when the fighting stopped and the national council ground moved to Ustanali, [15] the Cherokee remained a fragmented ...
Black Fox confirmed Doublehead's treaty, however, after Return J. Meigs, the United States Indian Agent, promised Black Fox he would receive $1,000 in cash and a regular annuity thereafter. [4] Doublehead was killed shortly thereafter for what many Cherokee viewed as a traitorous act.
Treaties that were either written and opened for signature in the year 1792, or entered into force in 1792. 1787; 1788; ... Treaty of Seringapatam; T. Treaty of Holston;
The 1791 Treaty of Holston established the northeastern border of the Cherokee Nation with the United States of America at the ridge separating the Little River and Tennessee basins. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In late 1791, [ 12 ] Cherokee emissaries traveled to Philadelphia , America's then-capital, in part to request that settlers who had intruded south ...