United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.1194341807-12-02This document is a copy of a treaty made between the Cherokee headmen and the U.S. government through their commissioner Return J. Meigs at Chickamauga, December 2, 1807. The first article of the treaty allows for the sale of six square miles north of Chickamauga Creek by the Cherokees to the U.S. for the purpose of mining iron. The second article states that the U.S. shall agree to pay the sum of five thousand dollars and one thousand bushels of corn upon ratification of the treaty. The treaty further states that if the U.S. should fail to find iron ore within the ceded land, they shall be able to get the ore in another place.Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.text/htmlimage/jpegpa0205engManuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, MS2033 Penelope Johnson Allen, box 1, folder 41, document pa0205.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: AT&T DjVu browser plug-in needed to view images of documents.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/Cherokee Indians--TreatiesArticles of a treaty between the United States [and] the Cherokee [Nation], 1807 Dec. 2, Chickama[u]gaText