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On the recordJanuary 23, 1806
A convention has been entered into between the United States and the Cherokee Nation for the extinguishment of the rights of the latter, and of some unsettled claims in the country north of the river Tennessee, therein described.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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