The few white inhabitants were subjects of the King of Spain, and lived under Spanish law; the Creeks and Choctaws were his subsidized allies; and he held the country by right of conquest.

Georgia, a weak and turbulent, though a growing State, was powerless to enforce her claims.

Most of the territory to which she asserted title did not in truth become part of the United States until Pinckney's treaty went into effect.

It was the United States and not Georgia that actually won and held the land in dispute; and it was a discredit to Georgia's patriotism that she so long wrangled about it, and ultimately drove so hard a bargain concerning it with the National Government.
Claims to the Northwest.
There was a similar state of affairs in the far Northwest.

No New Yorkers lived in the region bounded by the shadowy and wavering lines of the Iroquois conquests.