The Hopewell Treaties
Hopewell Treaty Site
Three hundred yards northwest of the Hopewell property on November 28, 1785, U.S. Treaty Commissioners Benjamin Hawkins, Andrew Pickens, Joseph Martin, and Lachlan McIntosh met with 918 Cherokees. The Cherokee delegation and U.S. negotiators signed the first treaty between the United States of America and the Cherokee Nation. Similar Hopewell Treaties were signed at Hopewell with the Choctaws (January 3, 1786) and Chickasaws (January 10, 1786).
These Hopewell Treaties provided for prisoner exchanges, boundaries, trade, peace, and perpetual friendship.
