But the ink was hardly dry on the Treaty of New York before settlers on the Georgia frontier poured across the newly established borders by the thousands, blissfully oblivious of any geographic line drawn on a map by some faraway government. The Georgia legislature brazenly defied federal jurisdiction over its western borders, claiming that all of Creek country and beyond to the Mississippi belonged to Georgia based on its colonial charter. Washington was infuriated but also helpless to stop the demographic wave.
