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Cherokee Land Cessions
Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology
to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute
1884
(The Numbers on this Map do not Match the Numbers on Royce’s 1896-97 Maps)

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Charles Royce's 1884 Cherokee Cessions Map

No.	Date and designation of Cherokee Treaties.	Description of Cession	Color.
1.	Treaty of 1721 with South Carolina.	Tract in South Carolina between Santee, Saluda, and Edisto Rivers.	Red.
2.	Treaty of Nov.24, 1755 with South Carolina.	Tract in South Carolina between Wateree and Savannah Rivers.	Blue.
3.	Treaty of Oct. 14, 1768, with British Superintendent of Indian Affairs.	Tract in Southwestern Virginia.	Mauve.
4.	Treaty of Oct. 14, 1770 at Lochabar, S.C.	Tract in Virginia, West Virginia, Northeastern Tennessee, and Eastern Kentucky, which is overlapped by No. 7.	Red.
5.	Treaty of 1772 with Virginia.⁽¹⁾	Tract in Virginia, West Virginia, and Eastern Kentucky.	Yellow.
6.	Treaty of June 1, 1773 with British Superintendent of Indian Affairs.	Tract in Georgia, north of Broad River.	Mauve.
7.	Treaty of March 17, 1775, with Richard Henderson, et al.	Tract in Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee (overlaps No. 4).	Blue.
8.	Treaty of May 20, 1777, with South Carolina and Georgia.	Tract in Northwestern South Carolina.	Red.
9.	Treaty of July 20, 1777, with Virginia and North Carolina.	Tract in Western North Carolina and Northeastern Tennessee.	Green.
10.	Treaty of May 31, 1783, with Georgia.	Tract in Georgia, between Oconee and Tugaloo Rivers.	Green.

1. The Treaty of 1772 appears to be an arrangement made in 1771 between the Treaty Commisioneers and the Cherokee, but not a bona fide treaty.

No.	Date and designation of Cherokee Treaties.	Description of Cession	Color.
10a.	Treaty of nov.28, 1785, with the United States.	Tract in Western North Carolina.	Yellow.
10b.	...do...	Tract in Southern and Western Kentucky and Northern Tennessee.	Green.
11.	Treaty of July 2, 1791, with United States.	Tract in Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee.	Brown.
12.	Treaty of Oct. 2, 1798, with United States.	Tract in Tennessee, between Hawkin’s Line, Tennessee River, and Chilhowee Mountain.	Red.
13.	...do...	Tract in North Carolina, between Pickens and Meigs line.	Red.
14.	...do...	Tract in Tennessee, between Clinch River and Cumberland Mountain.	Red.
15.	Treaty of Oct. 24, 1804, with United States.	Tract in Georgia, known as Wafford’s Settlement.	Red.
16.	Treaty of Oct. 25, 1805, with United States.	Tract in Kentucky and Tennessee, west of Tennessee River and Cumberland Mountain.	Yellow.
17.	Treaty of Oct, 27, 1805, with United States.	Tract in Tennessee of one section at Southwest Point.	Green.
18.	...do...	First island in Tennessee River above the mouth of the Clinch River.	Mauve.
19.	Treaty of Jan. 7, 1806, with United States.	Tract in Tennessee and Alabama, between Tennessee and Duck Rivers.	Red.
20.	...do...	Long or Great Island in Holston River.	Red.
21.	Treaty of Mar. 22, 1816, with United States.	Tract in Northwest corner of South Carolina.	Blue.
22.	Treaty of Sept. 14, 1816, with United States.	Tract in Alabama and Mississippi.	Green.
23.	Treaty of July 8, 1817, with United States.	Tract in Northeastern Georgia.	Yellow.
24.	...do...	Tract in Southern Tennessee.	Green.
25.	...do...	Tract in Northern Alabama, between Cypress and Elk River.	Blue.
26.	...do...	Tract in Northern Alabama, above the mouth of Spring Creek on Tennessee River.	Blue.
27.	Treaty of Feb. 27, 1819, with United States.	Tract in Nothern Alabama and Southern Tennessee.	Yellow.
28.	...do...	Tract in Southern Tennessee, on Tennessee River.	Red.
29.	...do...	Tract in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia.	Mauve.
30.	...do...	Jolly’s Island, in Tennessee River.	Red.
31.	...do...	Small tract in Tennessee, at and below the mouth of Clinch River.	Green.
32.	...do...	Tract of 12 miles square, on Tennessee River, in Alabama.	Mauve.
33.	...do...	Tract 1 mile square, in Tennessee, at foot of Cumberland Mountain.	Green.
34.	...do...	Tract of 1 mile square, at Cherokee Talootiske’s residence.	Green.
35.	...do...	Tract of 3 square miles, opposite mouth of Hiwassee River.	Green.
36.	Treaty of Dec. 29, 1835, with United States.	Tract in Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee, being all the remaining lands east of the Mississippi River.	Blue.

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