EXTRACT: Regarding Boundary Lines with Creeks
Document 1791Account of Creeks decision to draw boundary with United States at north fork of river.
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are not acquainted with the surface of the battlefield, and what more than one can tell the information [given?] was as follows:
Of the Creeks.
That journey by the Creeks in a grand Council repeatedly declared they were willing to confirm them lands, ceded by treaty, to the United States, as far as the North fork of the [undecipherable]. But not to the South fork nor [undecipherable] take [undecipherable] upon [undecipherable] not the [undecipherable] The difference between a [undecipherable] to the fork to the other being [undecipherable] to be a body of country about 300 miles in length, from 30 to 90 in width, according to the shape of the rivers.
That on June [undecipherable] Daily [undecipherable] 1791 McG[undecipherable] wrote to [undecipherable] informing him that the Creeks would not agree to relinquish those lands south of the North fork, but [undecipherable] them [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] the article of the treaty, were [undecipherable] to the eastern [undecipherable] large; and with respect to the [undecipherable] or [undecipherable] mouth of the Oconee, it seemed and as I told you it [undecipherable] at that point — [undecipherable] not yet to [undecipherable] but unanimously agreed not to cede [undecipherable] I am them till you are to defuse [undecipherable] long [undecipherable] the territory between the two forks, mentioning the quantity of land, so well as its [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 1799 [undecipherable] good [undecipherable] nothing of his own [undecipherable] nothing and that at the head it was [undecipherable] to be transferred from a little English
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Account of Creeks decision to draw boundary with United States at north fork of river.
Date
1791
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1791999940101
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Notable persons
Henry Knox
Alexander McGillivray

