Land area
Land of the Creek in Alabama and Georgia, ceded 1814 (area 75)
- 1814
Ceded to the United States
By Treaty of Fort Jackson (Capitulation of the Creeks), 1814
In the record
Ceded by the Creek in the 1814 Treaty of Fort Jackson after the Creek War, about half their territory, in Alabama and Georgia, demanded by the United States for its war costs. The area covers about 21 million acres in what is now Alabama and Georgia.
The 1899 record names Muscogee (Creek) as the people of this land.
How it was taken: a treaty made under documented pressure. The treaty is styled a capitulation after military victory, and the Encyclopedia of Alabama and National Park Service describe Jackson dictating terms and allied Creeks objecting.
Today, Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town, Kialegee Tribal Town, Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Poarch Band of Creek Indians and Thlopthlocco Tribal Town carry the history of the people named here.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources.
Shapes come from C. C. Royce’s 1899 maps as georeferenced by the US Forest Service. They are approximate and are not legal descriptions of land. Royce recorded land the United States treated as ceded; the shape does not show a nation’s territory.
Who is doing the work
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
- Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town
- Kialegee Tribal Town
- Muscogee (Creek) Nation
- Poarch Band of Creek Indians
- Thlopthlocco Tribal Town
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Connections
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Located in 2
Nations named for this land 1, as named in the 1899 record
- Muscogee (Creek)suggested
Agreements recorded for this land 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1814-08-09primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1814-08-09primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Georgia (Library of Congress)primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Alabama (Library of Congress)primary record
- USDA Forest Service, Tribal Lands Ceded to the United States (digitized Royce maps)reference work
The record’s fields
- Area number in the 1899 record
- 75
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1814-08-09
- Kind of instrument
- Treaty or agreement
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Creek
- States
- AL; GA
- Counties
- Appling; Atkinson; Autauga; Bacon; Baker; Baldwin; Barbour; Berrien; Bibb; Blount; Brantley; Brooks; Bullock; Butler; Calhoun; Charlton; Chilton; Clarke; Clay; Clinch; Coffee; Colquitt; Conecuh; Cook; Covington; Crenshaw; Cullman; Dale; Dallas; Decatur; Dougherty; Early; Echols; Elmore; Escambia; Etowah; Fayette; Geneva; Grady; Henry; Houston; Irwin; Jefferson; Lanier; Lowndes; Marengo; Miller; Mitchell; Monroe; Montgomery; Perry; Pierce; Pike; Seminole; Shelby; St. Clair; Talladega; Thomas; Tift; Turner; Tuscaloosa; Walker; Ware; Wayne; Wilcox; Winston; Worth
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Georgia; Alabama
- Geometry
- Approximate shape from Royce’s 1899 maps
Research notes
geometry_role is 'cession' for every USFS feature: no field in the source distinguishes cessions from reservations.
- Kind
- Land area
- Confidence
- Medium