Today in Chickamauga History - August 30
1802, August 30: Letter To Thomas Jefferson from John Drayton - The Cherokees most directly affected by, and most concerned about, encroachments by settlers from Georgia lived in the UPPER Towns, located in western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, and northern Georgia. Cherokee leaders who spoke for the nation as a whole tended to be from the Lower Towns, which were along the Tennessee River. The Glass, who was from the Lower Towns, brought up the problem of the settlements during his visit to Washington in the summer of 1801, but continuing dissatisfaction in the Upper Towns helped undermine the U.S. commissioners’ attempt to negotiate with the Cherokees later that year (William G. McLoughlin, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic [Princeton, 1986], 28, 30, 58–61, 78–83; Thomas Foster, ed., The Collected Works of Benjamin Hawkins, 1796–1810 [Tuscaloosa, Ala., 2003], 369–84; Vol. 34:506; Vol. 35:196n, 308). - https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-38-02-0281