Treaties of Hard Labour and Lochaber

In October 1768 (the treaty text is dated October 14) they drew a line from Chiswell's lead mine to the Kanawha's mouth at today's Point Pleasant, putting both banks of the Kanawha in Virginia. Two years later at Lochaber (October 18, 1770) the Cherokee ceded still more.

Surveyor John Donelson, walking the line in 1771 with Attakullakulla, then ran it not to the Kanawha but to the mouth of the Kentucky River (then often called the Louisa), a swing of roughly ten million acres. Shawnee hunters who actually used the Bluegrass were not signatories.