State
Tennessee
In the record
Royce’s schedule records 22 cessions that lie at least partly in Tennessee, from 1785 to 1835, under 13 treaties, agreements and acts. The peoples named most often are Cherokee and Chickasaw.
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Connections
Contains 22
- Land of the Cherokee in Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennessee, ceded 1785 (area 3)1785
- Land of the Cherokee in North Carolina and Tennessee, ceded 1791 (area 8)1791
- Land of the Cherokee in North Carolina and Tennessee, ceded 1798 (area 42)1798
- Land of the Cherokee in Kentucky and Tennessee, ceded 1805 (area 57)1805
- Land of the Cherokee in Tennessee, ceded 1805 (area 58)1805
- Land of the Cherokee in Tennessee, ceded 1805 (area 59)1805
- Land of the Cherokee in Tennessee, ceded 1819 (area 105)1805
- Land of the Cherokee in Tennessee, ceded 1819 (area 107)1805
- Land of the Cherokee in Tennessee, ceded 1819 (area 108)1805
- Land of the Cherokee in Tennessee, ceded 1819 (area 109)1805
- Land of the Chickasaw in Tennessee, ceded 1805 (area 55)1805
- Land of the Cherokee in Alabama and Tennessee, ceded 1806 (area 64)1806
Show all 22
- Land of the Cherokee in Tennessee, ceded 1806 (area 65)1806
- Land of the Chickasaw in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, ceded 1816 (area 80)1816
- Land of the Cherokee in Tennessee, ceded 1817 (area 84)1817
- Land of the Chickasaw in Kentucky and Tennessee, ceded 1818 (area 100)1818
- Land of the Cherokee in Alabama and Tennessee, ceded 1819 (area 101)1819
- Land of the Cherokee in Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee, ceded 1819 (area 103)1819
- Land of the Cherokee in Tennessee, ceded 1819 (area 102)1819
- Land of the Cherokee in Tennessee, ceded 1819 (area 104)1819
- Land of the Chickasaw in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, ceded 1832 (area 178)1832
- Land of the Cherokee in several states, ceded 1835 (area 203)1835
Sources
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