[Footnote 40: Report of Senate Committee March 1, 1797. See American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 623. Also Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee, p. 276.] .] [Footnote 41: Carpenter and Arthur's History of Georgia, p. 253.] [Footnote 42: Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee, p. 299.] [Footnote 43: Ib., p. 345.] [Footnote 44: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 18.] [Footnote 45: See Nos. 10_a_ and 10_b_ on accompanying map of Cherokee cessions.] [Footnote 46: By resolution of Congress, March 15, 1785.] [Footnote 47: Report of Treaty Commissioners, dated Hopewell, December 2, 1785. See American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 40.] [Footnote 48: American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 628, and letter of General Winchester to General Robertson, November 9, 1797.] [Footnote 49: Letter of Hon. John M. Lea, of Nashville, Tenn., to the author.] [Footnote 50: Letter of Geo. H. Morgan, of Gainesborough, Tennessee.] [Footnote 51: Report of Treaty Commissioners. See American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 38.] [Footnote 52: American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 44.] [Footnote 53: Journal of Treaty Commissioners. See American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 43.] [Footnote 54: Report of Treaty Commissioners in American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 38.] [Footnote 55: Letter of Return J. Meigs to Secretary of War, May 5, 1803; also, letter of Hon. John M. Lea, Nashville, Tennessee.] [Footnote 56: Letter of Governor Blount to Secretary of War, December 16, 1792, in American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 631.] [Footnote 57: Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee.] [Footnote 58: Old manuscript map on file in Indian Office, Washington, D. C.] [Footnote 59: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 39.] TREATY CONCLUDED JULY 2, 1791; PROCLAIMED FEBRUARY 7, 1792.[62] _Held on bank of Holston River, near the mouth of French Broad, between William Blount, governor of the Territory south of Ohio River and superintendent of Indian affairs, representing the President of the United States, on the part and behalf of said States, and the chiefs and warriors of the Cherokee Nation on the part and behalf of said nation._ MATERIAL PROVISIONS. 1. Perpetual peace declared between the United States and the Cherokee Nation. 2. Cherokees to be under sole protection of the United States and to hold no treaty with any State or individuals. 3. Cherokees and the United States to mutually release prisoners captured one from the other.