Following the [[Treaty of FortWilliam_Petty,_2nd_Earl_of_Shelburne|Lord StanwixShelburne]] in NovemberLondon ofwas 1768,determined whichto establishedsettle disputes along the boundarywestern linesfrontier in order to avoid more conflict with the northNative ofAmericans. Virginia,Although Lordhe Shelburnelost his office as [[Southern Secretary]] in LondonOctober wasof determined1768, tonegotiations settlewith disputestribal alongchiefs regarding the westernNorth American colonial frontier progressed. Following the [[Treaty of Fort Stanwix]] in orderNovember toof avoid1768, morewhich conflictestablished withthe boundary lines to the Nativenorth of Virginia, Americans. This led to the '''Treaty of Lochaber''' which was signed in South Carolina on October 18, 1770 by [[Great Britain|British]] representative [[John Stuart (loyalist)|John Stuart]] and the [[Cherokees]]. Based on the terms of the accord, the Cherokee relinquished all claims to property from the [[North Carolina]] and [[Virginia]] border to a point six miles east of [[Long Island (Tennessee)|Long Island of the Holston River]] in present-day [[Kingsport, TN]] to the mouth of the [[Kanawha River]] at present-day [[Point Pleasant, West Virginia]] in [[Mason County, West Virginia|Mason County]]. The North Carolina-Virginia border at this time was along the 36° 30' parallel in present-day Tennessee. The south fork of the Holston River was agreed to become the southern bounds due to settler's confusion of where the parallel ran. Therefore, "North of the Holston" settlers were considered outside of the Cherokee lands.<ref>http://www.tngenweb.org/cessions/colonial2.html#Lochaber</ref> In this treaty, the Cherokee surrendered their rights to the remaining land in present-day southern West Virginia not included in the [[Treaty of Hard Labour]] in October of 1768.
