. History of Tennessee, from the earliest time to the present; together with an historical and a biographical sketch of Giles, Lincoln, Franklin and Moore counties;. d must have caused him to feel, he wrote to McGilvery acknowl-edging the satisfaction caused by the receipt of his letter, seemed to exten-uate the recent aggressions of the Creeks upon the settlers, and statedthat he had caused a deed for a lot in Nashville to be recorded in hisname. To another letter from the Creek chief he replied that the Cum-berland settlers were not the people who had made encroachments uponCreek territory,
. History of Tennessee, from the earliest time to the present; together with an historical and a biographical sketch of Giles, Lincoln, Franklin and Moore counties;. d must have caused him to feel, he wrote to McGilvery acknowl-edging the satisfaction caused by the receipt of his letter, seemed to exten-uate the recent aggressions of the Creeks upon the settlers, and statedthat he had caused a deed for a lot in Nashville to be recorded in hisname. To another letter from the Creek chief he replied that the Cum-berland settlers were not the people who had made encroachments uponCreek territory, and stated that the people of the Cumberland onlyclaimed the land which the Cherokees had sold to Col. Hudson in 1775, etc. The right to the lands of the Lower Cumberland was claimed by theChickasaws rather than by the Cherokees at the time of the Revolu-tionary war. Prior to that time the former tribe lived north of theTennessee and about fifty miles lower down that stream than the Lower(Cherokee) Towns. They ceded the Cumberland lands in 1782 or 1783 atthe treaty held by Donelson and Martin. In 1786 commissioners were appointed by Congress to treat with the. HISTOKY OF TENNESSEE. 93 Cherokees and other southern tribes. These commissioners say in theirreport to Richard Henry Lee, president of Congress, that there aresome few people settled on the Indian lands whom we are to remove, andthose in the fork of French Broad and Holston being numerous, theIndians agree to refer their particular situation to Congress and abide bytheir decision. Although these persons had settled contrary to treatystipulations entered into by Virginia and North Carolina in 1777, yetthey were too numerous to order off, hence the necessity of obtaining theconsent of the Cherokees to refer the matter to Congress. The same re-port furnishes an estimate of the number of warriors of the nations ofIndians living south of the Tennessee and in reach of the advanced set-tlements which was as follows: Cherokees,
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