The Cherokees agreed to negotiate in part because they hoped to forestall more White settlements in [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], and because Indian agents Meigs and Smith were insistent.{{Sfnp|Hoig|1999|p=92}} Meigs and Smith “employed the standard technique of bribery as a method of working out two new treaties with the Cherokees. Doublehead and [[Tahlonteeskee (Cherokee chief)|Tahlonteeskee]] [Common Disturber] were promised choice tracts of land [in exchange] for help in persuading the other chiefs to approve land cessions. Still other secret awards were issued when a delegation comprising Doublehead, Vann, Tahlonteeskee, and 14 others was escorted to Washington, D.C., in late December for consummation of still another treaty and a visit with [[Thomas Jefferson|President Jefferson]].”{{Sfnp|Hoig|1999|p=92}}
The Cherokees agreed to negotiate in part because they hoped to forestall more White settlements in [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], and because Indian agents Meigs and Smith were insistent.{{Sfnp|Hoig|1999|p=92}} Meigs and Smith “employed the standard technique of bribery as a method of working out two new treaties with the Cherokees. Doublehead and [[Tahlonteeskee (Cherokee chief)|Tahlonteeskee]] [Common Disturber] were promised choice tracts of land [in exchange] for help in persuading the other chiefs to approve land cessions. Still other secret awards were issued when a delegation comprising Doublehead, Vann, Tahlonteeskee, and 14 others was escorted to Washington, D.C., in late December for consummation of still another treaty and a visit with [[Thomas Jefferson|President Jefferson]].”{{Sfnp|Hoig|1999|p=92}}
Vann got the federal road from [[Augusta, Georgia|Augusta]] to [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]] routed past his trading post.{{Sfnp|Hoig|1999|p=93–94}} The Washington treaty included language that granted preferred tracts of land at Muscle Shoals to five people.{{Sfnp|Hoig|1999|p=92}} The first reserve was “bounded southerly on the said Tennessee river, at a place called the Muscle Shoals, westerly by a creek called ”Te Kee, ta, no-eh” or [[Cypress Creek (Alabama)|Cyprus creek]] [Cypress Creek] and easterly by ”Chu, wa, lee”, or [[Elk River (Tennessee River tributary)|Elk river]] or creek, and northerly by a line to be drawn from a point on said Elk river ten miles on a direct line from its mouth or junction with Tennessee river, to a point on the said Cyprus creek, ten miles on a direct line from its junction with the Tennessee river.”<ref name=”:0″ /> This land was to be shared in common by “John D. Chesholm, ”Au, tow, we”, and ”Cheh Chuhz”,” also known as ”Sequechu” (Big Half Breed), who Doublehead’s brother.{{Sfnp|Hoig|1999|p=92}} This was called Doublehead’s land.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeTWJK-SGtw |title=Forks Of Cypress Plantation Tour in Florence Alabama |date=2009-10-29 |last=Alabamatourism |access-date=2025-06-06 |via=YouTube}}</ref> The other tract was described as “two miles in width on the north side of Tennessee river, and to extend northerly from that river three miles, and bounded as follows, viz. beginning at the mouth of [[Spring Creek (Tennessee River tributary)|Spring Creek]], and running up said creek three miles on a straight line, thence westerly two miles at right angles with the general course of said creek, thence southerly on a line parallel with the general course of said creek to the Tennessee river, thence up said river by its waters to the beginning.”<ref name=”:0″ /> This land was “on which Moses Melton now lives” to be titled equally to both Melton and Charles Hicks.<ref name=”:0″ /> John Melton and his wife, a sister of Doublehead, had been living at the confluence of the Elk River and the Tennessee since 1780, eventually giving their name to a place called Melton’s Bluff.<ref name=”:2″>{{Cite web |last=Shelton |first=William |date=2025-11-12 |title=Davy Crockett, President Jackson, and Cherokee Nation passed through Melton’s Bluff in Lawrence County |url=https://www.moultonadvertiser.com/news/article_0919d0aa-90c0-445c-9562-43815be35ab9.html |access-date=2026-02-11 |website=The Moulton Advertiser |language=en}}</ref> The government also agreed to fund construction of a [[cotton gin]] at the Muscle Shoals.<ref name=”:2″ /> Off the books, key Cherokee representatives were also paid $1,000 and two rifles.{{Sfnp|Hoig|1999|p=92}} Chisholm and Doublehead later granted a White man 10-year lease at Muscle Shoals “for the purpose of building a [[dam]], [[gristmill]], and [[sawmill]]”.{{Sfnp|Hoig|1999|p=92}}
Vann got the federal road from [[Augusta, Georgia|Augusta]] to [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]] routed past his trading post.{{Sfnp|Hoig|1999|p=93–94}} The Washington treaty included language that granted preferred tracts of land at Muscle Shoals to five people.{{Sfnp|Hoig|1999|p=92}} The first reserve was “bounded southerly on the said Tennessee river, at a place called the Muscle Shoals, westerly by a creek called ”Te Kee, ta, no-eh” or [[Cypress Creek (Alabama)|Cyprus creek]] [Cypress Creek] and easterly by ”Chu, wa, lee”, or [[Elk River (Tennessee River tributary)|Elk river]] or creek, and northerly by a line to be drawn from a point on said Elk river ten miles on a direct line from its mouth or junction with Tennessee river, to a point on the said Cyprus creek, ten miles on a direct line from its junction with the Tennessee river.”<ref name=”:0″ /> This land was to be shared in common by “John D. Chesholm, ”Au, tow, we”, and ”Cheh Chuhz”,” also known as ”Sequechu” (Big Half Breed), who Doublehead’s brother.{{Sfnp|Hoig|1999|p=92}} This was called Doublehead’s land.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeTWJK-SGtw |title=Forks Cypress Plantation Tour in Florence Alabama |date=2009-10-29 |last=Alabamatourism |access-date=2025-06-06 |via=YouTube}}</ref> The other tract was described as “two miles in width on the north side of Tennessee river, and to extend northerly from that river three miles, and bounded as follows, viz. beginning at the mouth of [[Spring Creek (Tennessee River tributary)|Spring Creek]], and running up said creek three miles on a straight line, thence westerly two miles at right angles with the general course of said creek, thence southerly on a line parallel with the general course of said creek to the Tennessee river, thence up said river by its waters to the beginning.”<ref name=”:0″ /> This land was “on which Moses Melton now lives” to be titled equally to both Melton and Charles Hicks.<ref name=”:0″ /> John Melton and his wife, a sister of Doublehead, had been living at the confluence of the Elk River and the Tennessee since 1780, eventually giving their name to a place called Melton’s Bluff.<ref name=”:2″>{{Cite web |last=Shelton |first=William |date=2025-11-12 |title=Davy Crockett, President Jackson, and Cherokee Nation passed through Melton’s Bluff in Lawrence County |url=https://www.moultonadvertiser.com/news/article_0919d0aa-90c0-445c-9562-43815be35ab9.html |access-date=2026-02-11 |website=The Moulton Advertiser |language=en}}</ref> The government also agreed to fund construction of a [[cotton gin]] at the Muscle Shoals.<ref name=”:2″ /> Off the books, key Cherokee representatives were also paid $1,000 and two rifles.{{Sfnp|Hoig|1999|p=92}} Chisholm and Doublehead later granted a White man 10-year lease at Muscle Shoals “for the purpose of building a [[dam]], [[gristmill]], and [[sawmill]]”.{{Sfnp|Hoig|1999|p=92}}
