I.] in the spring and summer of 1777.
The negotiations consumed much time, the delegates from both sides meeting again and again to complete the preliminaries.

The credit of the State being low, Isaac Shelby furnished on his own responsibility the goods and provisions needed by the Virginians and Holston people in coming to an agreement with the Otari, or upper Cherokees [ Footnote: Shelby's MS.

autobiography, copy in Col.

Durrett's library.]; and some land was formally ceded to the whites.
But the chief Dragging Canoe would not make peace.

Gathering the boldest and most turbulent of the young braves about him, he withdrew to the great whirl in the Tennessee, [Footnote: Va.