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Articles of a treaty made and concluded at the City of Washington, on the twenty-second
day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, between George Graham, being
specially authorized by the President of the United States thereto, and the undersigned
Chiefs and Headmen of the Cherokee Nation, duly authorized and empowered by the
said Nation.
ARTICLE 1.
Whereas the Executive of the State of South Carolina has made an application
to the President of the United States to extinguish the claim of the Cherokee
nation to that part of their lands which lie within the boundaries of the said
State, as lately established and agreed upon between that State and the State
of North Carolina; and as the Cherokee nation is disposed to comply with the
wishes of their brothers of South Carolina, they have agreed and do hereby agree
to cede to the State of South Carolina, and forever quit claim to, the tract
of country contained within the following bounds, viz.:
beginning on the east bank of the Chattuga river, where the boundary line
of the Cherokee nation crosses the same running thence, with the said boundary
line, to a rock on the Blue Ridge, where the boundary line crosses the same,
and which rock has been lately established as a corner to the States of North
and South Carolina; running thence, south, sixty-eight and a quarter degrees
west, twenty miles and thirty-two chains, to a rock on the Chattuga river at
the thirty-fifth degree of north latitude, another corner of the boundaries
agreed upon by the State of North and South Carolina; thence, down and with
the Chattuga, to the beginning.
ARTICLE 2.
For and in consideration of the above cession, the United States promise and
engage that the State of South Carolina shall pay to the Cherokee nation, or
its accredited agent, the sum of five thousand dollars, within ninety days after
the President and Senate shall have ratified this treaty: Provided, That the
Cherokee nation shall have sanctioned the same in Council: And provided also,
That the Executive of the State of South Carolina shall approve of the stipulations
contained in this article.
In testimony whereof, the said commissioner, and the undersigned chiefs and
head men of the Cherokee nation, have hereto set their hands and seals.
George Graham, [L. S.]
Colonel John Lowry, his x mark, [L. S.]
Major John Walker, his x mark, [L. S.]
Major Ridge, his x mark, [L. S.]
Richard Taylor, [L. S.]
John Ross, [L. S.]
Cheucunsene, his x mark, [L. S.]
Witnesses present at signing and sealing:
Return J. Meigs,
Jacob Laub,
Gid. Davis.
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Treaty of 1816 
