The Virginia Gazette

June 19. On Monday last the Hon. John Stuart, Esq; Superintendent of the southern district of America, returned here from the western frontiers, where he has been for some months past, holding congresses with the Creeks and Cherokees, and transacting other business, of importance in his department. The conferences with the Indians were very friendly; treaties were settled and agreed upon, to the satisfaction of the several tribes and their traders, and the commerce put under proper regulations. It has already been mentioned that Mr. Commissary Cameron, and the Cherokee Headmen, were set out to meet his Excellency Governor Tryon, in order to run the boundary line behind North Carolina, and we have now the pleasure of informing the publick that the Lower Creeks have engaged to the Superintendent that they will send deputies to Augusta, before the end of September, to perform the like service behind Georgia and East Florida, which done, the exact limits between the Indian hunting grounds, and all the southern provinces, except Virginia, will be fixed and determined. The murder of the packhorseman happened at the town of Hillabees, in the Upper Creek country; the people of those towns gave the Superintendent the strongest assurances of satisfaction. The accounts of that murder, which reached the Mortar, when on his way to Augusta to assist at the congress, occasioned his returning home immediately. Attakullakulla, and the other Cherokee deputies, have put off their intended voyage to New York until the ensuing fall.