Alexander Cameron.
32.

Haywood, 43.
33.

Meanwhile Carter's Valley, then believed to lie in Virginia, had been settled by Virginians; the Indians robbed a trader's store, and indemnified the owners by giving them land, at the treaty of Sycamore Shoals.

This land was leased in job lots to settlers, who, however, kept possession without paying when they found it lay in North Carolina.
34.

A similar but separate lease was made by the settlers on the Nolichucky, who acquired a beautiful and fertile valley in exchange for the merchandize carried on the back of a single pack-horse.