Line of Property - Treaty Description of The Line

Treaty Description of The Line

As written with original spellings and place names; (modern names in parentheses):

• "Beginning at the Mouth of the Cherokee or Hogohee River" (Tennessee River) "where it empties into the River Ohio" (at Paducah, Kentucky)
• "& running from thence upwards along the South side of said River to Kittanning, which is above Fort Pitt" (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
• "from thence a direct Line to the nearest Fork of the west branch of Susquehanna
• "thence through the Allegany Mountains along the south side of the said West Branch until it comes opposite to the mouth of a creek called Tiadaghton" (Pine Creek just west of Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania)
• "thence across the West Branch along the South Side of that Creek"
• "and along the North Side of Burnetts Hills to a Creek called Awandae" (Towanda Creek)
• "thence down the same to the East Branch of Sasquehanna" (at Towanda, Pennsylvania)
• "& across the same and up the East side of that River to Oswegy" (Owego, New York)
• "from thence East to Delawar River" (Delaware River)
• "and up that River to opposite where Tianaderha" (Unadilla River) "falls into Sasquehanna" (Susquehanna River)
• "thence to Tianaderha" (New Berlin, New York?) "and up the West side of the West branch" (Beaver Creek) "to the head thereof"
• "& thence by a direct Line to Canada Creek, where it empties into the Wood Creek at the West of the Carrying Place beyond Fort Stanwix" (Rome, New York).