"ARTICLE I. That hostilities shall forever cease between the said Cherokees.
and the people of North Carolina   from this time forward, and that peace, friendship, and mutual
confidence should ensue.

By the second article all prisoners and property were to be delivered up to the agent to be
appointed to reside among the Cherokees, and by the third article no white man was permitted to
reside in or pass through the Overhill towns without a certificate signed by three justices of the
peace of North Carolina, Washington, County Va., the certificate to be approved by the agent.
Any person violating this article was to be apprehended by the Cherokees and delivered to the
said agent, whom they were to assist in conducting such person to the nearest justice of the peace
for adequate punishment, and the Cherokees were authorized to apply to their own use the effects
of such person so trespassing. Article fourth provided for the punishment of murderers, both 
Indians and white men, and article fifth defined the boundary line as follows:

"That the boundary line between the State of North Carolina and the said Overhill Cherokees shall
forever hereafter be and remain as follows: Beginning at a point iknn the dividing line which
during this treaty hath been agreed upon between the said Overhill Cherokees and the State of
Virginia, where the line between that State and North Carolina, hereafter to be extended, shall
cross or intersect the same; running thence a right line to the north bank of Holston River at the
mouth of Cloud's Creek, beginning the second creek below the Warrior's Ford at the mouth of
Carter's Valle; thence a right line to the highest point of a mountain called the High Rock or
Chimney Top; thence a right line to the mouth of Camp Creek, otherwise called McNamee's 
Creek on tile south bank of Nollichucky River, about ten miles or thereabouts, below the mouth 
of Great Limestone, be the same more or less, and from the mouth of Camp Creek aforesaid, a
southeast course into the mountains which divide the hunting grounds of the Middle Settlements
from those of the Overhill  Cherokees. And the said. Overhill Cherokees, in behalf of themselves, 
their heirs and successors, do hereby freely inopen treaty, acknowledge and confess that all the
lands to the east, northeast and southeast of the said line, and lying south of the said line of
Virginia, at any time heretofore, claimed by the said Overhill Cherokees, do of right now belong
to the State of North Carolina and the said subscribing chiefs, in behalf of the said Overhill
Cherokees, their heirs and successors, do hereby in open treaty, now and forever quit claim all
right, title. claim and demand of, in and  to the land comprehended in the State of North Carolina,
by the line aforesaid.

This treaty was signed by:
 Waightstill Avery William Sharpe, Robert Lanier, and Joseph Winston, on the part of North
Carolina, 
and by the following chiefs and warriors, each one making his own mark: Oconostota, The Old
Tassel, The Raven, Willinawaw, Ootosseteh,  Attusah, Abram of Cilhowee, Rollowch, Toostooh,
Amoyah, Oostossetih, Tillehaweh, Skeahtukah, Attakulakulla, Ookoonekah, Kataquilla,
Tuskasah, Sunnewauh. 


WITNESSES: Jacob Womack, James Robins, John Reed, Isaac Bledsoe, Brice Martin, and John
Kearns."

INTERPRETER: Joseph Vann

SOURCE: History of Tennessee, Illustrated, The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1887