Cherokee Treaty of 1772, VA Land Cession
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In reply to:
Re: Massacre of David Crockett the Elder, in TN.
Mary E. Watson 7/20/12
As per an onlineCherokee Land Cessions site, which has an 1884 map from the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, the Cherokee Nation ceded their Virginia lands in 1772 (Treaty #5).
Otis Fuller