They chose to sell to the British Crown all their remaining claim to the lands between the Ohio and Tennessee rivers hoping by doing so to draw off English pressure on their territories in the Province of New York .
The Ohio and Tennessee rivers they did not occupy .
They chose to sell to the British Crown all their remaining claim to the lands between the Ohio and Tennessee rivers , which they did not occupy , hoping by doing so to draw off English pressure on their territories in the Province of New York .