Treaty of Camp Charlotte (1774)

In the treaty of October 19 that closed Dunmore's War, the Shawnee accepted the Ohio River as the boundary and, by the usual accounts, gave up hunting rights south of it—Kentucky included (no copy of the treaty survives). That temporary quiet opened Kentucky to settlement and the 1775 rush of stations.

The Transylvania purchase was a separate, private deal: the Cherokee, not the Shawnee, sold that land to Richard Henderson at Sycamore Shoals in March 1775, and Virginia later voided it. Raids resumed once the Revolution pulled British and tribal alliances back into the Ohio Valley.