[Footnote 315: Indian Office to Agent E. W. Duval, Little Rock, Arkansas, July 8, 1824.] [Footnote 316: July 8, 1824.] [Footnote 317: Secretary of War to Governor Izard, of Arkansas, April 16, 1825.] [Footnote 318: See map on file in Indian Office.] [Footnote 319: May, 1825.] [Footnote 320: In a letter from Agent Meigs to the Secretary of War, dated June 2, 1817, Major Lovely is spoken of as having been agent residing with the Cherokees on the Arkansas. He had been an officer of the Virginia line throughout the Revolution and participated in the capture of Burgoyne. He had lived some time in the family of President Madison's father, and went to Tennessee at an early day, whence (after living many years among the Cherokees) he removed with the emigrant party to the Arkansas. In a letter to the Hon. John Cocke from the Secretary of War, December 15, 1826, it is, however, stated that Major Lovely was a factor or trader in the Arkansas country, who took an active part in the preliminary negotiations that led finally to the conclusion of the treaty with the Osages of September 25, 1818. It also appears from the same letter that the estimated area of Lovely's purchase was 7,392,000 acres, and that when the west boundary line of the Cherokees was run, in 1825, it was found that 200 square miles of Lovely's purchase were included within its limits.] [Footnote 321: Secretary of War to Arkansas Cherokee delegation in Washington, February 12, 1823.] [Footnote 322: Secretary of War to Arkansas Cherokee delegation in Washington, October 8, 1821.] [Footnote 323: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IV, p. 153.] [Footnote 324: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IV, p. 40.] [Footnote 325: April 3, 1827.] [Footnote 326: Letter of T. L. McKenney to Secretary of War, March 18, 1828.] [Footnote 327: March 27, 1828.] [Footnote 328: April 11, 1828.] [Footnote 329: The areas here given by the State authorities were largely below the quantity actually contained within the limits of the cessions within the States of Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, as will be seen by a glance at the table of such areas on page 378.] [Footnote 330: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 311.] [Footnote 331: Letter of Secretary of War to Western Cherokee delegation. May 17, 1828.] [Footnote 332: Letter of Sub-Agent Brearly to Secretary of War, September 27, 1828.] [Footnote 333: May 28, 1828.] [Footnote 334: Letter of T. L. McKenney to Secretary of War, January 21, 1830.] TREATY CONCLUDED FEBRUARY 14, 1833.--PROCLAIMED APRIL 12, 1834.[335] _Held at Fort Gibson, on the Arkansas River, between Montfort Stokes, Henry L. Ellsworth, and John F. Schermerhorn, commissioners on the part of the United States, and the chiefs and headmen of the Cherokee Nation of Indians west of the Mississippi._ MATERIAL PROVISIONS.