ABSTRACT
This led, upon the assembly of the commissioners and surveyor at Chickasaw Old Fie lds , in the fall of 1807 (for the purpose of surveying and marking the boundary l ines in question), to the negotiation of an explanatory treaty with certain of the Cherokee chiefs, on the 11th of September, 1807, 1 whereby it was agreed that the Cherokee cession line should be extended so far to the eastward as to include all the waters of Elk "Eiver and thereby be made coincident and uniform with the Chickasaw line.
