TUCKER, Samuel (& Isabella SHELTON). Isabella is the daughter of Robert of England. See OTHER MORMON SHELTONS.
TURKEY TOWN TREATY (1817).This was the first formal recognition of the western Cherokee by the United States. Under its terms 4,000 Cherokee ceded their lands in Tennessee in exchange for a reservation with the western Cherokee in northwest Arkansas. Immigration during 1818-19 swelled number of western Cherokee to over 6,000. Fort Smith was built in 1817 & Fort Gibson in 1824. By 1828 the Arkansas white settlers demanded removal of Cherokee & Osage so the western Cherokee gave up Arkansas for Oklahoma. Final boundries were determined in 1835.
