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1650. "The Cherokees were firmly established on the Tennessee river, or Hugohege, before the year 1650, and had the dominion over all the country in the east side of the Alleghany mountains, which includes the head waters of the Yadkin, Catawba, Broad river, and the head waters of the Savannah. From thence westwardly, they set up a claim as far as the Ohio, and from there to the head waters of the Chattahouche and Alabama. The tradition which they have amongst them, says they came from the west, ^+ and exterminated the former inhabitants; and then says, they came from the upper parts of the Ohio, where they erected the mounds on Grave Creek, & that they removed hither from the country where Monticello is situated. They are not noticed by Mr. Jefferson, in his table of original tribes which inhabited any part of Virginia at or subsequent to the year 1606, and from thence up to 1669." Nat:& Ab:: Hist: Tenn. [?Hayland?]] 22b

+ contradicted by traditions given to me. J. H. P.