Treaty of Lochaber: Difference between revisions

[[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 with the Native Americans. Although he lost his office as [[Southern Secretary]] in October of 1768, negotiations with tribal chiefs regarding the North American colonial frontier progressed. The [[Treaty of Fort Stanwix]] in November of 1768 fixed the boundary lines to the north of Virginia. 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]] fixing the boundary for the western limit of the frontier settlements of [[Colony_of_Virginia|Virginia]] and North Carolina.<ref name=RA111>[http://www.roanetnhistory.org/ramseysannals.php?loc=RamseysAnnals&pgid=111 Ramsey's Annals, page 111.</ref> 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.