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Feby [February] the 22d [22nd] 1798 -- [unclear text: Lines -- Ville ]

The report of the Commissioners apointed [appointed] by his Excellency the Governor of the State of Georgia; to accompany -- Collo. [Colonel] Benjamin Hawkins Comissioner [Commissioner] on behalf of the -- United States for the purpose of running the Temporary Boundary Line Between the White Inhabitants of this State and the Creek Indians

Your Commissioners Report as follows -- that on the
Sixth Day of January last your Commissioners joined Collo. [Colonel] Hawkins at Fort Wilkinson on the South Side of Oconee River and proceeded up the same on the Indian Side to the Mouth of the Apalachie Called by the Indians [unclear text: Tulapocca ] -- Accompanied by five Creek Indian Commissioners whose Names are as follows
[unclear text: Tuficia Mico ] or King of the [unclear text: Warriors ]
John Galphin
[unclear text: Tuchugo ]
[unclear text: Tushmagau ]
[unclear text: Emothlahago ]
With three Indian Attendants
We proceeded up the Apalachie Sixty five Miles that is -- Measuring our Traviling [Traveling] by our Time pices [pieces] Estimating three Mile to an hour -- About one mile and a half below the Head source of the same We Encamp And Continue in Camp two Days -- Waiting for Major Kilpatrick of South Carolina Who was sent forward by General Pickins as surveyor to make the Traverse line from [unclear text: Tugulo ] and the [unclear text: Curihee ] to the Head of the Apachie -- On the Second Day in the Evening he arived [arrived] And reported the true course from the [unclear text: Curihee ] [added text: [unclear text: Mountain ] ] to the Apala [added text: c ] hie to be N39E About half a mile from the Head of this river there is a Fork and the Streams nearly [unclear text: Equal ] . We take [added text: the ] North as we think it Some what the longest, and here we


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Begin to mark in and about the Fork is [unclear text: mared ] on Different trees

JAN: 19th 1798
B Hawkins -- C:U:S
A Burns -- Georgia Commisioners
J Clemments
T.M. Indians Commissioner all in Roman Character
[unclear text: I.G. ]
[unclear text: J.G. ]
W. [unclear text: H. ]
E.H

We then proceed to the Source marking on both Sides with side [unclear text: Chops ] facing the Stream In the Head of which on a Maple is the [unclear text: corner ] and round it is marked two Maples two pines three black [deleted text: Jack ] Gums and a black Oak about twenty yards below in the branch is a small Holly may be ten Inches through which we mark U:S:C
From this place we begin to Measure and proceed on our way for the Curihee Mountain Noting -- Down Every thing perticular [particular] in our view also at the end of every Mile the Number of miles from the starting point marked on trees in Roman Characters and figurs [figures] also U:S: on the right side and C on the left the marks stands thus

on the Right Side
XXI
US
21
& on the left C



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our Surveyor after measuring Forty three Miles finds himself forty two Chains South of the Mountains [unclear text: Apex ]
We Ascend the mountain and begin the line from its Top to Tugulo River our Course is N4E the length of this line is ten Miles and four Chains and the river where the line [unclear text: Stricks [Strikes] ] it is fifty yards wide -- on -- a Water Oak on the South Margin of the River we marked U:S LINE and C in the usual order
We Return to the [unclear text: Curihee ] mountain and begin the Correction of the error of our first line -- We begin on the top of the Mountain and [unclear text: run ] back [deleted text: N3 ] S32W twenty one Miles Where the two lines Converge which point is at the North fork of the Oconee
Here we Encamp all night and next morning -- being Saturday the third Instant we Quit the line and Sete [Set] out for home

General Observations

The Apalachia is a River whose forks ar [are] verry [very] -- Distinguisable [Distinguishable] therefore no Douts [Doubts] Could arise as to the right one
The Lands about the Head of this river are Verry [Very] mean and Ill Timbered -- for the [added text: first ] two or three miles we crossd [crossed] several small branches of the Chatahoochee River the Lands Gravelly and badly Timbered- But on the oconee Streams although hilly, there is a Large proportion of fine Land
In Runing [Running] this line we left out may be [deleted text: about ] fifteen or sixteen Setlers [Settlers] in particular Mr. Cunningham at the War hill Station is Left out one mile and a half Collo. [Colonel] Wawford Nearly the Same -- Distance
By the Best Information we could [added text: get ] the Chatahoochee ridge at its gratest [greatest] Distance is not more than Seven miles from this line


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We further say that the Continental Commissioner Collo. [Colonel] Hawkins and the Indians -- Showed every Disposition to run the Line agreeable to the Existing Treaties

[Signed] Andw [Andrew] Burns
[Signed] John Clements



For His Excellancy [Excellency] James Jackson Esqr [Esquire] Governor [unclear text: &c&c [et cetera et cetera] ]


1798
Boundary
Indian Line


22 Feby [February] 1798

Report of A Burns & J Clements Commissr [Commissioners] to run the line

Feby [February] 22d [22nd] 1798