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[CREEK WAR]. National Intelligencer. President Monroe makes public the sale of Creek Indians land in the Alabama Territory after an Act he passed on 3 March 1815. Washington: Gales & Seaton, 8 December 1817. Vol. XVIII, No. 2685. 4pp., large folio (533 x 343 mm), some marginal browning, few ink stains on final leaf, separation along joint, old fold. Monroe declares the public sale “for the disposal (agreeably to law) of the lands in the Alabama Territory north of the river Tennessee…” under “an Act to provide for the ascertaining and surveying of the boundary lines fixed by the treaty with the Creek Indians, and for other purposes”. Andrew Jackson effectively ended the Creek War in August 1814 with the signing of the Treaty of Fort Jackson that forced the Creek confederacy to cede 22 million acres of land in what is now southern Georgia and central Alabama. Provenance: William Cranch (1769-1855), subscriber name. Cranch was appointed as chief judge of the United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia (1806-1855) by Thomas Jefferson and is the nephew of President John Adams.