Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-06-12
HAYWOOD'S
HISTORY OF TENNESSEE.
[CoNTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.

the agents of Spain to meet and hold
conferences with them at the Walnut
Hills, and did so; and here it is be.
lieved that their unfavorable dispo.
sition towards the Cum mberland settlers,
received no diminution. The Indians
in small detachments made frequent
inroads upon the white settlements,
waylaying the paths and corn fields,
and dogging upon the tracks of those
who went out TO explore the country
and make locations, and never failed
to kill them when good opportunity
offered. They killed Ireson and Barnet
In surveying excursion, soon after
the commissioners came out; they
killed William Durham and Joseph
Dunhar, where the plantation of Mr..
Irwin now is, on Richland creek; at
the same place they killed Joshua
Norrington and Joel Mills; and at a
plantation near this, at the same time,
they killed Daniel Durham; in path
leading from Dunham's fort to Arm
strong =, at the head of Richland creek,
where Castleman now lives, they killed
man going from one fort to the other;
at Armstrong'sfort, at the place which
included it, Mr.. Rains daughter Patsy
was riding on horse back, with young
woman behind her; she and Betsy Will.
liams were fired upon by the Indian 8,
and the latter killed; the former es
capped and ran off home; short time
afterwards, within a mile of Arm
strong's fort, Joseph holland was killed
by the Indians, and in the summer of
this year, they killed the son of Thos.
holland; in the fall they killed the old
man himself, near the same fort.
About the same time they killed the
father of Betsy Williams before men.
toned. Buchanon had a station in
l7SS, five miles from the bluff; there
the Indians in this year killed William
Mulherrin, Samuel Buchanon and three
Others, who were guarding the station.
In this year William Overall was
killed going from the bluff to Ken.
lucky; Joshua Thomas was mortally
wounded and died; in this year the In.
dians came to the bluff and stole horses:
twenty men were raised by Capt. Will
liam Pruett, who pursued them to
Richland creek of Elk, overlook them,
retook the horses, on the waters of Big
creek, and commenced their returning
march, having fired on the Indians and
killed none. They came to the north
side of Duck river, near creek, and
encamped there all night. In the morn
ing the Indians fired on the rear as
they began to move, and killed Moses
Brown in a cane brake; the white peo-
pleAretreated mile and a half till they
could get into open ground, and there
halted and formed; the Indians came
up, shot down Pruett and Daniel John.
ston, and wounded Morris Shine, and
the white people again retreated to the
bluff. having lost as many horses as
had been recovered from them.
The Chickasaws soon heard of the
law of North Carolina, passed in April,
lTSS, for the appropriation of their
lands, as we'll as of all the lands claim
ed by the Cherokees, except those
which, by the same act, were allowed
to them for their hunting grounds; and
they could not but view the act as a
very unceremonious intrusion upon
their rights, and likewise as proof of
great unconcern with regard to the
of the Chickasaws upon
subject of much moment to them; with
the regrets of an old friend, compelled
by i'll treatment to relinquish bis
friendly possessions; they turned from
the people OF Cumberland, and in com.
mon with the Creeks and Cherokees,
prepared to goad them with the sting
OF their displeasure. But in the latter
part of 1888, the settlements received
additional strength by the arrival of
new settlers. Turnbull, a trader came
from Natchez with horses and skins;
these he brought from the Chickasaw
nation; Absalom Hooper came from
Natchez, also, Thomas James, Philip
Alston, James Drumgold' his son in
law, James Cole and others, amongst
whom was James Donaldson. In this
year Samuel Hay established station
on Stone river.
For the clear comprehension of facts
which are soon to follow in the sequel
OF this story, we will close this year
with remarks which are proper for
their elucidation wherever they may
occur.
Spain, though an ally Of the United
States in their war with Great Britain,
was actuated by desire to weaken the
latter by a separation of SO great part
OF the British empire, and at the same
time had no affection for the new
States. On the contrary, she enter
taincd towards them nearly the senti.
ments of satan in his soliloquy to the
sun. As soon as the settlements were
formed on Cumberland river, the Span
ish government took the alarm; it
dreaded the approach of independent
principles; nor did the Spadish cabinet
disguise their dislike to them. When
the treaties which terminated the war
OF the revolution began to be seriously
thought of by the belligerents, the
SDanish Cahinot anpl,ad 20 tho H-o-.L