The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-10
WE'RE FIRST COUSINS.
Gen. Mcintosh, Chief of the Creeks,
and GOV. Troup.

Gen. Mcintosh, Chief of the Creeks,
and Gov. TrOup.
At the last meeting of the Georgia His
torical Society copy of the Washington
Gazette of May 4, 1926, was presented by
Messrs. r. D. & William baltimore. The
paper contains two letters from Gen. Will
lam Mcintosh, chief of the Creek Nation,
to Gov. Troup on the subject of the Creek
cession to Georgia. The letters are as fol-
lows:
Creek Nation, April II, 1925.
To Governor Troup.-I have taken the
liberty of sending to you a Memorial of
our Chiefs to the Legislature of your
State, and request the favor of you to
cause it to be laid before them, with such
remarks of your appreciation as you may,
in friendship towards US, think proper to
bestow.
In giving voluntarily our consent for
the survey of the land in the late Treaty,
we were actuated by motives of friend
ship purely towards you and towards your
people. No consideration of a mercenary
nature could be permitted to enter our
breasts when a favor was asked of us,
particularly by your Excellency, and in
behalf of your people. We know the great
Importance it was to your people TO be
ready to occupy the country Immediately
after our removal from it, and have with
true hearts of friendship acceded to your
request. We would have thought it dis
graceful in us to attempt to make.a condi-
ton founded on your wants or desires,
price for our acquiescenee.
The opportunity presented itself, and
we hope the circumstance will have only
the effect to render ourselves worthy of
your esteem and friendship. I remain
your brother and friend, VIM. Mcintosh.
Extract of letter from Gen. VIM. Nc
Intosh to Gov. Troup, dated
Lock, Chan-Talo-Fau, April 70, 1875
II request your Excelency to publish in
some of the public newspapers, that per-
sons wishing to make purchase of proper
ty of any kind, or to buy out our
improvements for the balance of our time,
must first attend at my house and enroll
their names, specifying the kind of proper
ty purchased, and from whom stating the
residence of each party: all such persons
we shall consider coming amongst us as
fair traders, and all such as may settle
on land improved or not in the bounds of
the late Treaty, will be considered by us,
and reported as intruders, to your Ex-
cellency, If they do not comply with those
terms.
Inc letter OF Gen. Mcintosh IS dat
ed April r. 1925. Seventeen days later, on
the 18th, he was murdered in his own
house on the Chattahoochee by a band of
hostile Indians. composed of Ocfuskees
and Tookobatchas, who had become indig-
nant over the action of Mcintosh in con-
senting to a treaty whereby a large area
of Creek territory was 10 be sold to Geor-
gia. His son, Chilly Mcintosh, escaped the
fate of his father by jumping through a
window, and he fastened to Gov. Troup,
10 whom he reported the matter.
Gov. Troup's father married Catherine,
daughter of Capt. John Mcintosh. who was
a brother of the eccentric Roderick (or
Rory Mcintosh. They were relations Of
John Mohr Mcintosh. the progenitor of the
family in Georgia. Capt. John had a son,
William, brother of Mrs. Troup who was
a captain In the British army and agent
of that government to the Muscogee or
Creek Indians during the Revolutionary
War. This Capt. William was the father
of the noted Chief, Gen. William Mcintosh
and the mother was an Indian woman Of
unmixed blood.
1t will be seen by this statement that
Gov. Troup and Gen. Mcintosh were first
cousins.