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The Cherokee sided with the British during the American Revolution, and in 1776 Major Andrew Williamson's South Carolina militia destroyed their Lower Towns in what is now South Carolina. He then cooperated with the North Carolina militia in expeditions against the Cherokees in North Carolina and Georgia. Seeking peace, the Cherokees soon negotiated with the Patriots to give up most of their lands in South Carolina. On May 20, 1777, at DeWitt's Corner, the Cherokees signed a treaty with South Carolina that moved the frontier boundary line westward into what is now Oconee County. The boundary line crossed the top of Oconee Mountain near here. The remaining Cherokee land in present-day South Carolina was ceded in the Treaty of 1816, extending the South Carolina frontier to the present state boundary on the Chattooga River.
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