The recorder, or, Lady's and gentleman's miscellany. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1801-1802, 1802-05-01
EXTRACT
PROM TIE HISTORY OF TIE
UNITED STATES FOR
1896.

pears from the encouragement con-
family given TO the defence of Indian
frontier. On that head, the following
narrative will repay peruial.
On the 10Th of November, 1894,
PRECEDENT Waihington, in his ipeech to
Congreis, has thefe words. g towards
&c none OF the Indian tribes have over
" lures of friendihip been ipared. The
Greeks, IN particular. are ceversd fran
g entertainment by the interpoiition OF
Sc the general government, and that of
Georgia" 1t would have been forru-
nate for the people of 7'enei1ee, if the
general government had covered Them
from the encroachments of the Greeks.
ReiPecting the behaviour of the Greeks
previous to the delivery Of that 1peech,
information for tho preient work has
been derived from two fources, the pub
lie newspapers, and a private manuicripr
Communicated by Mr.. Andrew Jackfon,
Representative from the ttate OF Ten
nellee in the fourth Congre{s. An ex-
animation OF the(e details will aHilt in
aiccrraining what fort Of friendthip the
Greeks deierved, and TO what iide The
balance Of protection oughe to have
leaned.
The account given in The newspapers
amounts in iubitance 60 what follows.
Continual fklrmifhcs had been taking
place for along tine. In one of che1e,
onthe 9Th Of Augut, 1904, lieutenant
Mcclellan, w!rh thirty ievcn men, had
been attacked on the Cumberland path,
eighteen miles from South Wet Point,
by above an hundred Greeks. lie had
four men Killed, and four milling. He
!ikewiie loft thirty one horfeS, with ie-
veral other articles. A multitude of |
murders by the Indians are mentioned, |
OF thefe, il would be needIels here to |
attempt 9 catalogue. 4 letter from |
Knoxville, dated z2d of September
z7o4, iays, that the general af1cmbly
OF Teneiice had then been IN FELTON, for
5evcral weeks, They had prepared ano-
ther memorial to Congress, with a la Of
che citizens killed, wounded, or ia
ken pIiiui1ers by the Creeks and Che
rokees, ilnce the ut 0! March laft; the
date Of former itatement to Con-
grels. The number was an hundred and
twenty feven, be(des which the Indians
had 3olen four hundred and seventy
four hor1es. Thefe thefts ard murders
had been chiefly committed while 4 par
~ Of rhe Lover ChecoIecs were At
Philadelphia, giving the ttrongctt pro-
mites Of peace, and while MAJOR Sea
grove, All agent for Indian affairs, was
making afIurances Of rhc friendlhip Of
the Greeks. The letter concludes with
an account Of fome licih murders which
had, at that momenc, been received.
They were iaid 70 have been committed
on the 10Th Of September current.
Nickajack and Running Water were
two OF the mott populous OF the Lower
Cherokee towns. They were fltuated
clolc On the louth bank of the i cnei1ee
below place called thc Suck. They
were principal crof1ing places for the
Creeks over the Tenefte, when they
wanted to make war on Cumberland
and Kentucky. They bad co operated
with the warriors Of ook- out Noun
tain and WINS towns, for icveral years
pat, They boaGed Of perfect lccurity
from their ftuatioa. They were fur
rounded on three lides by mountains,
and projected on the north by the fouth
branch Of the Tcnenee. They were
al{o formidable b. theirnumbers.
On the 9TH Of September, major
Ore marched from Nalhyillc 70 arrack
rhc iavages. He had with him FIVE
hundred and fifty militia, Of whom an
hundred ard fl6ty we're from Kentucky.
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