REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE, TO WHOM WAS REFERRED, ON THE 7TH ULTIMO, THE MEMORIAL OF MATTHEW PATTERSON, AND SUNDRY OTHER PERSONS, RESIDING ON THE WESTERN BORDERS OF NORTH AND SOUTH-CAROLINA. 7TH APRIL, 1800. ORDERED TO LIE ON THE TABLE. 8TH APRIL 1800. COMMITTED TO A COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE HOUSE, ON THURSDAY NEXT. [PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES].
[Philadelphia: 1800]. 6pp, disbound. Very Good. The petition involved a strip of land along the French Broad River, originally owned by the Cherokees and upon which Matthew Patterson and several dozen other families had settled. By Treaty of 1798, the Cherokees ceded this land to the United States. The settlers..... More