On May 6, 1828 a treaty was made and authorized by the President and the Chiefs and head men of the Western Cherokees in which the latter exchanged their lands north of the Arkansas River, embraced in the present counties of Pope, Johnson, Franklin, Crawford, Washington, Madison and Newton, included in the Treaty of 1817 for which the United States ceded to the Western Cherokees or old settlers 7 million acres. It was this treaty that Arkansas and Crawford County lost the forty miles of her western boundary. Tonia