In truth, it would probably have been difficult to get any two members of the same tribe to have pointed out with precision the tribal limits.

Each tribe's country was elastic, for it included all lands from which it was deemed possible to drive out the possessors.

In 1773 the various parties of Long Hunters had just the same right to the whole of the territory in question that the Indians themselves had.
3.

Campbell MSS.
"The first settlers on Holston River were a remarkable race of people for their intelligence, enterprise, and hardy adventure.

The greater portion of them had emigrated from the counties of Botetourt, Augusta, and Frederick, and others along the same valley, and from the upper counties of Maryland and Pennsylvania were mostly descendants of Irish stock, and generally where they had any religious opinions, were Presbyterians.