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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 ...
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.
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
The new treaty extended the area for White settlement as far south as the Little Tennessee River, along which the main Overhill Cherokee towns were located. [9] The Cherokee did not formally relinquish their claim to this territory to the U.S. until the July 1791 Treaty of Holston [ 10 ] and even then, hostilities continued in the area for ...
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Fearing the new treaty would be unfavorable to North Carolina, Blount, with Governor Caswell's blessing, headed south in hopes of negotiating a separate treaty for the state. He arrived too late, however, and the Hopewell Treaty negotiated by the commissioners returned a sizeable portion of western lands claimed by North Carolina speculators to ...
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At that war's conclusion, the Cherokee signed the Treaty of Long Island-on-the-Holston with the Colony of Virginia in 1761 and the Treaty of Charlestown with South Carolina in 1762. c. 1755: The Cherokee signed the Treaty with South Carolina, ceding the land between the Wateree and Santee rivers. c. 1758–1769