Creek treaties that included land cessions in the 18th century
1733: Treaty of Savannah May 21, 1733. Established between the Coweta and
Cusseta and the English "Articles of Friendship and Commerce between the
Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America and the Chief Men of
the nation of the Lower Creeks"
1757: Treaty of Savannah. November 3, 1757 Permanently ratified the earlier
treaties, including those entered into by Mary Bosomworth.
1763 Treaty of Augusta used trails and rivers to create the first defined
line between the Creeks and the colony of Georgia.
1773 Creek and Cherokee debts to Georgians were assumed by the state in
payment for the land. This included a small portion of North Georgia.
1782-1783 Land to the south and west of the Tugaloo and Savannah Rivers were
ceded by the Cherokee and Creek. Both had laid claim to ownership.
1790 Alexander McGillivray, a mixed race Upper Creek ceded land from the
Altamaha to the Oconee in The Treaty of New York, signed by President George
Washington.
Available online at: http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/crtreaty.htm
Does not include the treaty of Augusta.
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