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{{Short description|1770 treaty between Great Britain and the Cherokee}}
The '''Treaty of Lochaber''' was signed in South Carolina on 18 October 1770 by [[Great Britain|British]] representative [[John Stuart (loyalist)|John Stuart]] and the [[Cherokees]], fixing the boundary for the western limit of the frontier settlements of [[Colony of Virginia|Virginia]] and [[Province of North Carolina|North Carolina]].<ref name=RA111>[http://www.roanetnhistory.org/ramseysannals.php?loc=RamseysAnnals&pgid=111 Ramsey's Annals, page 111.]</ref>▼
[[File:Map of the former territorial limits of the Cherokee "Nation of" Indians ; Map showing the territory originally assigned Cherokee "Nation of" Indians. LOC 99446145.jpg|thumb|250px|Land cession of 1770 (№4)]]
▲The '''Treaty of Lochaber''' was signed in South Carolina on 18 October 1770 by [[Great Britain|British]] representative [[John Stuart (loyalist)|John Stuart]] and the [[
[[William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne|Lord Shelburne]] in London was determined to settle disputes along the western frontier in order to avoid more conflict
Based on the terms of the accord, the Cherokee relinquished all claims to
== Donelson's Indian Line ==
A subsequent survey of the Treaty line by John Donelson of Virginia in 1771 placed the northern terminus of the line at the mouth of the [[Kentucky River]], substantially west of the Kanawha River, cleaving what is today extreme western Virginia, a wedge of western Virginia and a large part of northeastern Kentucky to Virginia colony, which lands were then part of newly organized trans-Appalachian Virginia's Botetourt County extending to the Mississippi River. The survey also moved the southern line from the North Carolina (today Tennessee) boundary south to the Holston River because settlers didn't know how to locate the North Carolina boundary without landmarks. This left three settlements, at Watauga, Nolichucky and Carter's Valley south of the surveyed line, hence in Cherokee land and not authorized by either the Crown or the Cherokee. These would later become separate purchases from the Cherokee and land grants from North Carolina During the organization of the Transylvania Colony in 1775.
==References==
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==External links==
[http://jeffersonswest.unl.edu/archive/view_doc.php?id=jef.00091 "Treaty of Lochaber 1770"]. Envisaging the West. University of Nebraska–Lincoln. 2009. Accessed on 24 April 2023.
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