1From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 10 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
A purchase having been lately made from the Cherokee Indians, of a tract of lands six miles square, at the mouth of the Chickamogga on the Tenissee, I now lay the treaty and papers relating to it before the Senate, with an explanation of the views which have led to it. It was represented that there was within that tract a great abundance of iron ore of excellent quality, with a stream & fall...