History of Mississippi - TREATY OF CHICKASAW COUNCIL HOUSE

 

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TREATY OF CHICKASAW COUNCIL HOUSE


This treaty was made September 20, 1816, and followed the Creek War, and the cession by the Creeks (Creek Cession) of the land in Alabama southwest of the river Alabama, adjoining the first Choctaw cession on the east. Together with the Choctaw Treaty of the same year, it opened up land north of those two cessions, but only east of the river Tombigbee, giving Alabama a great lead in opportunity for development, over both Mississippi and Georgia. The Chickasaws relinquished all claims north of the Tennessee River, and all title south thereof, and east of Caney Creek and the Gaines road (or ridge path), and the Tombigbee River south of Cotton Gin Port, where the road touches it. The treaty was made at the "long house" of the nation, at the Chickasaw Old Fields (Lee County) by Gen. Andrew Jackson, Gen. David Meriwether, and Jesse Franklin, and "the whole Chickasaw nation in council assembled." The consideration was an annuity of $12,000 per annum for ten years; $4,500.00 cash for improvements, and $100 each to Chinnubbee, King of the Chickasaws, Tishomingo, Coahoma (William McGillivray), Samuel Seeley, the Colberts, Brown, and a number of others. Gen. William Colbert was also given a life annuity of $100. Four reservations were made for the Colberts and others. The government also agreed to allow no more peddlers to enter the Chickasaw country. That part of this purchase, about 408,000 acres, which was found to lie in Mississippi State, was organized as the county of Monroe in 1821. According to the present county lines, the cession in Mississippi form the eastern part of the counties of Tishomingo, Itawamba, Monroe and Lowndes.


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