The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-21

| dock James MCQUEEN sent him with
! party of Creek Indians to help the
French In their war against the English.
| In the American Revolution there never
was Talassee or Matches Indian known
| to take up arms against the struggling
| colonies.
| knew Menanway, the Indian leader at
| the battle of the Horse Shoe. The hrst
| time ever saw him was at Booths In
dian store on the Ocmulga, in the year
| 1809 He was there In company with Sam
Dale and Harrison Young. the brother
| of the famous Simon Suggs." 1 recollect
| that Young and Menanway were just re-
| covering from the smallpox, both hav-
ing had the disease at Menanway's house
at Ocfuskee. Menanway told me years
afterwards the way he escaped at Horse
Shoe, where the slaughter was terrible.
He was badly wounded and discovered
that the whites and friendly Indians
paid but little attention to dead women;
he got some women's clothes, put them
on, dragged two or three dead women
together and lay beside them until night,
| and then escaped.
Sam Moniac, the brother-in-law of
| Weatherford, refused to join the war Of
the Creeks against the whites, and early
| in the year 1918, upon returning from a
| trip to the Chicasawha, in the Mississippi
| territory, with Weatherford, he found
| that several chiefs had assembled at q
place that was afterwards settled by
Townsend Robinson, from Arson county,
North Carolina. The chiefs were taking
the Ussa, or 'black drink" "a part of
their ceremonial on the eve of war;, and
had Moniac and weatherford's families
, at the square. They told Moniac and
Weatherford that they must join the war
party or be put to death. Moniao boldly
refused and mounted his horse. His
brother-in-law, Josiah Francis, the new
made prophet subsequently hung by
General Jackson) seized his bride; Moniac
snatohed a war-club from his hand, gave
Francis a severe blow and rode off, with
a shower Of rife bullets following him.
Weatherford consented to remain; he told
them that he did not approve of their
course and that it would be their ruin;
but they were his people: he was raised
with them, and he would share their fate
He was always called by them Billy
Laray, or Yellow Billy. The upper towns.
except the Netches and Hilabye, were
principally controlled by the Ocfuske
chief, Menanway, or Ogillis Incha, or Fat
Englishman. (These were the names of
the noted Indian chief who was at the
head, of the Indians at the battle of the
Horse Shoe, as has been already said.
The names of some of the leading
chiefs at this meeting and declaration of
war are as follows: The oldest and prn-
cipal chief, the one looked upon as the
general was a Tuskegee, called HOPPE
Tustanugga, or Far-off-Warrior: he was
killed at Fort Mimms. The others were
Peter Mcqueen. Jim Boy. or High-head
Jim; lilies Harjo or Josiah Francis the
new made prophet; the Otisee chief. Ne
Niece, Paddy WEIGH, Hosso
Yoholo. or the Singing Sun, and Seeka-
boo the Shawnee Prophet.
Sam Moniac, who refused to join these
chiefs. was regarded as being one of the
most intelligent half-breeds In the Creek
nation and was selected by Alexander
McGillivray for interpreter at the time
he visited General Washington at New
York. I have often seen a medal that
General WASHINGTON gave to Moniac for
his loyalty to the United States govern
ment he always was proud of the hon
or. and ALWAYS kept It on his person. and
II is still with him In his grave at Pass
Christian Miss. In sight of the Louis
Vile and Nashville railroad.
Weatherford is generally believed to
he the head instiqator of the bloody war,
but he always denied It. His father was
Charles weatherford, white man. thar
came to the Greek nation shortly after
the close Of the American Revolution
in COMPANY with Sam Mimms. who was
once engaged With George Galphin. In the
Indian trade. Weatherford's mother
! was a half-breed Tuslsegee Indian and
her father was Scotchman by the name
of Malcolm Mcpherson and blood rela-
ton to the late Judge Berrien of Georgia
Sehoy, or Sehoya Mcpherson was brought
up in her early days by the father of
Sam Moniac. She resided a part Of her
time with Lauchlan McGillivray and Dan
lei Mcdonald. Her first husband was
Col John Tate. the last agent the En-
glish government had among the Creek
Indians; she had one son. Davy Tate;
he was a man Of fine sense great firm