After the Battle of Long Swamp Creek near the Etowah River in northwest Georgia in November of 1783, Sour Mush, the defeated chief of a tiny renegade Cherokee hamlet unilaterally offered a peace treaty which gave away all Creek lands in Northeast Georgia, but no Cherokee lands. Sour Mush had moved onto the eastern fringes of Upper Creek territory in 1777, when he was evicted from the Cherokee Nation.