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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 ...
The Lesser Franklin government finally ended in 1791, when Governor William Blount, of the newly formed Southwest Territory, met the Cherokee chieftains on the site of the future Knoxville, and they made the Treaty of Holston. The Overhill Cherokee now acknowledged the authority of the United States government, and ceded to the federal ...
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 1792 State of the Union Address was delivered by George Washington to Congress on Tuesday, November 6, 1792. It was presented in Philadelphia's Congress Hall . The president commented on continued incursions by Native Americans into frontier settlements.