The boundaries it arranged were not considered final until confirmed by the treaty of Hopewell a couple of years later.
Robertson meanwhile was delegated by the unanimous vote of the settlers to go to the Assembly of North Carolina, and there petition for the establishment of a regular land office at Nashborough, and in other ways advance the interests of the settlers.

He was completely successful in his mission.

The Cumberland settlements were included in a new county, called Davidson [Footnote: In honor of General Wm.

Davidson, a very gallant and patriotic soldier of North Carolina during the Revolutionary war.

The county government was established in October, 1783.]; and an Inferior Court of Pleas and Common Sessions, vested by the act with extraordinary powers, was established at Nashborough.