Royce Treaty Area 6

The Royce Map of 1884 – Treaty Number 6, signed in the year 1773. 

Treaty of June 1, 1773, with British Superintendent of Indian Affairs: Ceding a Tract in Georgia, north of Broad River. Ceding an area of 1168 square miles.  Resulting in 89499 square miles remaining. The percent of the original area remaining is: 72.2% This treaty ceded 0.942% of the total original area of 123,960 square miles.

Explore the Royce Map’s High Level of Detail

The blue area is one of of the 38 Territories of the Cherokee homeland ceded by treaty. The image above was generated by georectifying the Royce 1884 Map over a modern Geographic Information System (GIS) map.

The first of 36 Territories of the Lost Cherokee Homeland to be Ceded by Treaty: The image above was generated by georectifying the Royce 1884 Map over a modern Geographic Information System (GIS) map. The area in blue was ceded by the Cherokee during the Colonial Period Treaty of 1721 with South Carolina. The tract lies entirely within South Carolina between the Santee, Saluda, and Edisto Rivers  and it ceded 2,676 square miles of Cherokee land.

The Map Legend

The image above is a high definition scan of the the legend section from the original Map of the Former Territorial Limits of the Cherokee “Nation of” Indians. Also know as the 1884 Royce Map.

By mapping these treaty areas with a Geographic Information System (GIS) we area able to produce size and percentage loss statistics. Click here for the statistics.

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