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Show . , , ~. i . . .. , ' XXIV REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRR. ' . certain described tract of country in the southern portion'of the prou- .. . ince, west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. (See Ramsey's Annals of Ten-nessee, p. 76.) In 1750, again in 1772, and in 1775, the Cherokees surren-dered their claims to all their lands in Virginia. (See Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee, p. 102.) Emtucky.-By the same treaties, viz, 1770,1772, and 1775, the Cher- 1; okees 8urrendered all their lands in Kentucky, except those portions lying south of the Cumberland River, which were st~bsequentlyc eded by the treaties of 1785 and 7805, (7 Stats. py. 18 and 93). The Chick-asaws ceded theirland by the treaty of 1805, (7 Stats. p. 89). New Pork.-The lands in the western portion occupied by the SixNa. tions were claimed by Massachusetts under a grant from King James I of England, to the Ply~nouth Colony, and by New York by charter from Charles 11 to the Duke of York. The dispute was not settled un-til the compact of December 16,1786,* when Massachusetts ceded to New York a11 claim to the <'government, sovereignty and jnrisdiction" of such lands, and New York, by the sccond article of .said compact granted to Massachwetta the right of the prc-cmption of the soil frora the native Indians, and all the right and title which she had in and to said lands. Massachnsetts convexed its title and interest in said lands (about 3,600,OGO acres) to Robert Morris, 1791. The Senecas conveyed , - their title to said lands, by the treaty of 1797, to Robert Morris, ex-cept certain described tracts named therein. (See annual report of the Indian Bureau for 1877, p. 163.) In 1797 the Mohawks ceded to New York aU their lands within its limits, (7 Stats, p. 61). Maryland.-As early as 1704 the general assembly enacted that all land in Dorchester Uounty, on the north side of Nanticoke %iver, within the following described boundaries, viz : - Beginning at the mouth of Chickavan Creek; thence up said creek to its source ; - thence by a line to the head of s, brauch issuing oot of the northwest fork of the Kaan- tiooke, known aa Francis Andereou'a Branch; thence down said branoh sod north-west fork to the main river; and thenee down tile same to place of beginniug, should he cohfirmed and assured unto Panquash and Annotoughquan, and the people under their government or charge, and their heirs and snccessors forever (Colonial and State laws, p. 140); and again, in 1711 it appointed a commission with power to lay out 3,000 acres of land on BroadCreek, Xanticoke River, in Somerset County, the title to be vested in Col. Thomas Ennalls and Lieutenant-Ooloncl Gale, and their heirs, to and for the use of the Nanticoke Indians so long as they occupied the same, and should be disposed of afterwards as the general assembly should direct. In 1723 the Province confirmed to the Choptank Indians and their descendants, so long as they should occupy or claim, and shoz~ldn ot totally desert tke same, all that tract of land lying in Dorchester County, on Ohoptank River, beginning at Secretary Sewell's Creek, according to 'See fourth volume of Journals of Congress for 1787, p. 788. |
