Treaty of Fort Adams

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"A Survey of the Route, proposed for the high way from Nashville in the State of Tenessee, to the Grind stone ford of the Bayou Pierre in the Mississippi Territory"
Natchez Trace and boundary survey in the vicinity of Tennessee River
General James Wilkinson

The Treaty of Fort Adams was signed on December 17, 1801, between the Choctaw (an American Indian tribe) and the United States Government. The treaty ceded about 2,641,920 acres (10,691.5 km2) of Choctaw land. The commissioners reported to President Thomas Jefferson that

for the first time, the bounty of the United States was implored, and we were supplicated for materials, tools, implements, and instructors, to aid their exertions, and to direct their labors ... hope, that by the liberal and well directed attention of the Government, these people may be made happy and useful; and that the United States may be saved the pain and expense of expelling or destroying them.[1]

  1. ^ Morrison, James D. "Red Meets White". The Social History of the Choctaw Nation: 1865-1907. p. 13. ISBN 0-917634-28-4.