Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-10-23
HAYWOOD'S
HISTORY OF TENNESSEE
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK. !

swercd, that he had seen proclama.
ton of Congress for restoring to the
Cherokees the lands encroached upon
since the treaty of 1885, which extend.
ed near to hota. The Cherokees had
asked assistance, he said, which The
Creeks furnished in the fall of 1888,
but since the proclamation, he had
spoken to the Little Turkey and the
Bloodyfellow, who we're satisfied of the
intentions of Congress towards them,
and promised to refrain from all hos
tilities against the whites. The leader,
called the Dragging Canoe, who was
upon the point of setting off with two
hundred men had stopped, He assured
Col. Robertson that he would persist
in the measures most proper to keep
Greeks from further hostilities against
Cumberland. He expected the ensuing
spring would terminate their disputes
with Georgia. Col. Robertson about
this time, also wrote to the Cherokees,
complaining of the outrages they had
committed in the time Of his absence
at the Assembly. Although it had
been agreed by treaty that the innocent
should not be punished for the mis-
behavior of wrong doers, he invited
them to send flag to him with their
ans~ er to let him know whether they
intended a general war or not
The year 1889 as it rolled into view,
brought with it some ordinary and
and some extraordinary events. On
the goth of January. the Indians killed
Capt. Hunter and dangerously wound
ed Hugh F. Bell. A party of whites
collected and pursued the Indians, and
at the distance of two and half miles
came upon them ambuscaded. They
fired upon the pursuers, killed Major
kirkpatrick, and wounded j. Foster
and William Brown.
They kept up hostiltes during the
whole summer, and killed a number of
persons whose names are not known.
In the spring of this year, atDunham 8
Station, the Indians killed man of
the name of Mills; in May they killed
Durham, and in the GUNNER Joseph
Norrington and another Dunham, near
where the house of Joseph Irwin now
stands; they fired ON j. Cockrill, and
killed his horse; they stole horses, and
killed divers persons in different parts
of the country.
In May, 17S9, Judge McNairy, who
had been appointed to succeed the re-
signed Judge of the Superior Court for
the county of Davidson, and who had
come in 1887 TO discharge the functi
OF his office, set off with others, to 90
into what was then called the settle.
ments, and encamped on the west side
of Clinch. Here large company of
Indians fell upon them about two hours
by sun in the morning, and killed a
man of the name of Stanley, Chicka-
saw chief called Longhair and his son.
The whites were entirely routed and
escaped by swimming across Clinch
River; they lost all their horses and
great part of their clothing. In 1889,
the Indians killed Miss McGoughs, at
Hickman's Station; they killed Hugh
Webb, on the Kentucky trace, near
Barren River, as he and others were
bringing salt from Kentucky to Cum
berland. They killed a man who had
married Jane Hendricks, near Win
chester's mill; they shot Henry Ram
sey through the bowels, near Bledsoe 8
Creek, between Greenfield and Nor
gans Station, about three or four
miles west of Bledsoe's Lick.
In this year the Indians came to Col.
Robertson's Station in the day time,
and attacked him where his hands we're
at work in the field, in The latter part
OF June; they fired upon and shot him
through the bottom of the foot as he
ran towards the station. He ordered
Col. Elijah Robertson, of Davidson,
County, to send men in pursuit of
them. Sampson Williams, Captain
was ordered upon that service; his
men, to the number of sixty or seventy
convened at Gen. Robertson 8, and
marched along McCutchin's trace, up
west Harper to the ridge of Duck River
where they discovered that the Indians
out travelled them; twenty men were
ordered to the front, to leave their
horses aud to make forced marches
upon the trail. Sampson Williams and
the twenty pushed forward and came
in view OF their camp on the south
side of Duck River. Andrew jackson,
now Gen. jackson, was one of the
Twenty; they went d mile and half
up the river, crossed in the night and
went down the river, but the cane was
so thick that they could not find the
camp, and lay on their arms all night.
In the morning after advancing fifty
yards, Capt. Williams deserted them
mending up the chumps at the distance
of one hundred yards from where he
was; he and his men rushed towards
them and fired at the distance of sixty
yards, killed one, wounded five or six,
and drove them across the river to the
north side. He took from them sixteen
guns, nineteen shot pouches and oil
their baggage, consisting of blankets,
moccasins, leggins, &C., and returned
home; the Indians carried off the