Today in Chickamauga History - March 29
1808, March 29: Letter from Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate - When the Convention of the 7th. of January 1806. was entered into with the Cherokees, for the purchase of certain lands, it was believed by both parties that the eastern limit, when run in the direction therein prescribed, would have included all the waters of Elk river. on proceeding to run that line however, it was found to omit a considerable extent of those waters, on which were already settled about two hundred families. the Cherokees readily consented, for a moderate compensation, that the line should be so run as to include all the waters of that river.