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Federal court records: Latimer v. Poteet, Meigs Post

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  • SUPREME COURT Lattimer v. Poteet. And the great questions arising out of the instructions are, whether, at the dates of the entry and grant, the land was within the Indian country ? and if it was, whether the entry and grant were void ? The limits of the Indian country, within the state of North Carolina, were established by treaties made between the United States and the Cherokee tribe of Indians. The first treaty was concluded at Hopewell, the 20th November 1785. The fourth article of this treaty declared, "that the boundary allotted to the Cherokees for their hunting-grounds, between the said Indians and the citizens of the' United States, <fcc., shall 'in at the month of Duck river, on the Tennessee ; thence running northeast to the ridge dividing the waters.running into Cumberland from those and the above Nashville ; said river, to the f ary allotted to the Cherokees for their hunting-grounds, Indians and the citizens of the United States, &c, shall th of Duck river, on the Tennessee ; thence running north- dividing the waters running into Cumberland from those lYnnessee ; thence easterly, along tin1 said ridge, to ;i north- run, which shall strike the river Cumberland, forty miles thence, along the said line, to the river ; thence, up the ford where the Kentucky road crosses the river ; thence to Campbell's line, near Cumberland Gap ; thence to the mouth of Cloud's creek on Holston, thence to the Chimney-top mountain ; th nee to Camp creek, near the mouth of Big Limestone on Nalichuchey ; thence, ;i southerly course, six miles, to a mountain ; thence south, to the North Carolina line ; thence to the South Carolina Indian boundary ; and along the same, south-west, over the top of the Occunna mountain, till it shall strike Tugalo river ; thence, a direct line, to the top of the Currahee mountain ; thence to the head of the south fork of the Occunna river." The treaty of Holston, which was concluded the 2d July 1791, altered the limits, as established by the Hopewell treaty, and declared that" the line should begin at the top of the Currahee mountain, where the creek line passes it ; thence, a direct line to Tugalo river ; thence, north-east, to the Occunna mountain, and over the same, along the South Carolina Indian boundary, to the North Carolina boundary ; thence, north, to a point from which a line is to be extended to the river Clinch, that shall pass the Holston at the ridge which divides the waters running into Little river from those running into the Tennessee ; thence, up the river Clinch, to Campbell's line, and along the same, to the top of Cumberland mountain ; thence, a direct line, to the Cumberland river, where the Kentucky road crosses it; thence, down the Cumberland river, to a point from which a south-west line will strike the ridge which divides the waters of Cumberland from those of Duck river, *R t forty miles above Nashville ; "thence, down the said ridge, to a point from whence a south-west line will strike the mouth of Duck river. And in order to preclude for ever all disputes relative to the said boundary, the same shall be ascertained and marked plainly, by three persons appointed on the part of the United States, and three Cherokees on the part of their nation." Another treaty was made with the Cherokees, at Philadelphia, the 26th June 1794, in which it was stated that the treaty of Holston had not been" fully carried into effect ; and in the second article, it was "stipulated, that the boundaries mentioned in the fourth article of the said treaty shall be actually ascertained and marked, in the manner prescribed by the said article, whenever the Cherokee nation shall have ninety days' notice of the time and place at which the commissioners of the United States intend to commence their operation." 4
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