Today in Chickamauga History - December 18
1761, December 18: Treaty of Charlestown. Ended the Ango-Cherokee War with the province of South Carolina.
1793, December 18: Letter to Thomas Jefferson from Josef de Jaudenes and Josef Ignacio de Viar - John McDonald, who was not identified as the author of Enclosure No. 2 in the text sent to TJ, was an Indian trader and former British agent operating among the Chickamaugua Cherokees as an agent of William Panton, head of the influential mercantile firm of Panton, Leslie & Company, which with official Spanish approval carried on an extensive trade with the Southern Indians from its bases in East and West Florida (D. C. Corbitt and Roberta Corbitt, eds., - https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-27-02-0511