The Creek cession by Mico Tomochichi to James Oglethorpe in 1733 landed a major concern of the settlers. Crek and the Cherokee cessions had nothing to quench the thirst of land that the Georgia settlers had.
INDIAN LAND CESSIONS PRIOR 1800
The Treaty of Augusta in 1763 used rivers and trails to create the defined line between the Creeks and the colony of Georgia.
The Creek and Cherokee Indians debts to the Georgia settlers were assumed by the state of Georgia to pay for the land in 1773. This land was know as North Georgia.
The land south and west of the Tugaloo and Savannah Rivers were claimed by the Cherokee and Creek Indians during the year of 1782-1783.
The Treaty of New York signed by President George Washington in 1790 gave the Creek Indians the land from the Altamaha to the Oconee.
The two wars that were a key role in Georgia are the Creek War and the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in Alabama. Andrew Jackson assigned a new route to the Creeks. The Creek were yielded possession of the southern part of Georgia to prevent the Creeks to have further contact with the Seminoles in Florida.
This ended the Creeks cession in Georgia. In 1818 and 1821, the Crekk yielded possession of more land. In 1817 and 1819, the Cherokee ceded small portions of land.
George Troup was the new governor in Georgia in 1823. The Creek lost the confederation of tribes with the carious histories and customs. William McIntosh(son of Lachlan McIntosh) and a Creek woman tried to negotiate with the state. George Troup's first cousin gave the Creek Indians the remaining land in Georgia in the Treaty of Indian Springs in 1825.
Troup moved the survey and distribute the land. After the Creeks lost the rest of their remaining land in Georgia, they murdered William McIntosh. John Quincy Adams didn't consider the Treaty of Indian Sprins and pressured Troup to stop moving on the Indian Territory.
Troup won the governor election in 1825 and still thought the Treaty of Indian Springs were still valid. In January 1826, Adams negotiated the Treaty of Washington. The Treaty of Washington left the Creeks a small piece of land on the Georgia-Alabama border. In 1827, the Creeks were gone.
The Cherokee controlled the last piece of land in North Georgia. The state of Goergia brought the Cherokee Nation under Georgia law in 1828. In 1830, there was a convicton and execution of the murder of the Cherokee Indians. In 1831, the Sumpreme Court resulted in an appeal of what happened in 1830.
In the lawsuit of Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia Chief Justice John Marshall, this suit was denied the Cherokee right to bring any suit against the state. A year later, the Worcester vs. Georgia lawsuit ruled the laws of Georgia were invalid in the Cherokee land.
In 1832, Georgia proceeded with the land lottery and gave the Cherokee land to the whites to begin to move in.
