The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-10

one or two ChickasaWs ana >Det4- ware, all made their appearance. The shawness. with Spy Buck remained some two years near me and then left for the Kansas River. except his young | est brother. who remained with me four years or two years after the others had. gone.
 From these people .learned much of their history. They gave the same account of being forced back from sa.
 wannah and the settlements of the Mugquas in Alabama and Georgia as had been given by the Creeks them
 selves. I had some negroes that spoke the. Uchee, Creek and Hitcheta; they
 and the Shawnees could understand much of each other in Uchee and that Is one reason for believing that the Shawnees and the Uchees were once the same people.
 learned from Spy Buck that he had hunted with Savannah Jack above | the Cross Timbers on Red River after Jack had gone, west,
 l see you speak of Jack in your his- tory of Alabama. And as I was ac- | quafnted with Jack and had his his- | tory from many who knew him well | and 1t being connected with the hiss | tory of Alabama as we'll as with the Uchees history, 1t may not. be unln- | terestinE, to give 6 sketch of it here. | As I have before stated number of | the Uchees went northwest with, the Shawnees. years ago And not long | after they reached their home on the Ohio River they commenced their de- l predations on the frontier settlers of
 Pennsylvania and Virginia. In one of their scouts on the Pennsylvania from | tier they captured a white boy by the
 name of John Hague. This boy Hague, l was raised to manhood among them. and proved to be as great . savage | as any of them. He took a Uchee wo-
 man for wife and raised number of children, it was also sai9 that Hague
 raised an illegltimate son by white woman named GirtlTy or Girty and call- | ed his name Simon Girty after his i mother. This boy, was brought up about Detroit. It was said that, he l and man by the name of Wells con- tributed much to the defeat of General St. Clair. This learned, from several white men who knew Girty or were | with General St. Clair I will give you
 the names of four of them. as they were
 known tp many in Alabama and Geor- gia Nimrod Doyle, John Cone, Aba
 solom Hall and John Walton. Doyle. and Walton were both wounded at the defeat Hague who had grown old
 remained in the country untii General wayne put an end to the trouble in that quarter. ~ &s ~
 NORTHERN INDIANS SETTLED
 NEAR CITY OF MONTGOMERY
 So soon as this was done Hague
 came South with his Indian family. bringing with him some Uchees. So-
 wanoakas and settled them on Pawn
 Creek, or what is known as Line Creek near the mouth and on the l Montgomery side of the Creek. Hague died and was buried on mound, near what was once little Village, called by the whites Augusta. This learned from Doyle, Walton, Sam Moniac Billy Weatherford and
 others And Savannah Jack was his youngest son by the Uchee woman. l do not know that 1t would be slander- ing the illustrious dead to say that
 Jack was the Marshal Ney of the hos tile Indians. Jack fought through the
 war and after their defeat at Horseshoe and General Jackson moved his troops to where he built Fort Jackson The Indians became very much discou aged
 and commenced coming in. The chiefs who had controlled those towns could
 not get within striking distance to
 hear what was to be done. Jack sent
 his women and children out on the
 headwaters of the Catoma and secret
 ed hts warriors between a cypress brake and tine river. not far bove the
 present city of Montgomeryyt \ B.. .. WeatherfOrd, lvhpI wasisnot a chief
 but who hadamsrs isi5ssmnsee tlnTNI maisy that were. plaesds AlssspasDR DRius o0siiAn
 island fin the AlRbamAP EiveEdnesar sNez1
 land Creek which makes its -why;. into
 the river on, the srnoFth., nr. lAatzuga
 side, and the Island was called MeniaGs
 Island. Weatherfords people wARe
 Tuskegees. Peter ,McQueen and his
 Tallassees quartered themselves upon
 the headquarters of Line Creek John
 G0y, y,fNk ..N L.
 McQueen and also the brothers of Lo-
 chlih Durant. that you know. remain
 ed with Mcqueen. Josiah Francis, the
 Prophet. Nehe Marthla Micco. the
 Otisee Chief. both or whom were
 hanged by General Jackson In ISIS,
 placed their people not far above the
 Federal crossing on the Catoma. Hossa
 Yoholo. very. white half breed and
 the son of man by the name of
 Powell, I think, took shelter in the
 dense cane forest in the bend of the
 river opposite Montgomery. . This man
 from what I7hatet learned was one Gof
 the most reckless lighters in the na-
 tion. ollis Ineha. or Menanway who was the principal leader at Horse Shoe
 and who at the time was supposed to
 be killed, carried his people near the
 falls on the Cehawba and remained
 there until year after peace had been | made. , .- WaS tHc SltuAtIOu those | chiefs and their people about the time and shortly after General Jackson reached Franca Chocca -Chula. or the old French Trading Post as it was | called by the Indians. WeatherfOrd
 sent up Old Tom Carr. or Tuskegee | EmartfJa, and he soon learned | through Sam Moniac his brother In | law, who was always friendly that he
 was in no danger. and so he came to
 camp but not in the way that 1t has
 been represented.
 l GENERAL JACKSON AND
 WILLIAM WEATHERFORD l General Jackson, as if by intuition l seemed to know that Weatherford 1 was no savage, and much more than an ordinary man by nature and treat l ed him very kindly indeed. Savannah | Jack. or as he was then called by sOms l Sawanoaka Jack. was not then so we'll | known to the whites as many others. He frequented the camp pretty much l unnoticed, no doubt as he wished to be. It was not long before it was un- l derstood that Jacksa Chula Hario.
 wanted land to pay for the trouble he
 had been at. and that the Big War | riors and others were in favor giving Old Man Jackson. as they called him
 all the land he wanted. Jack-poor
 fellow--his little field happened to be
 on the Montgomery side of Line Creek
 and of course would have to go with
 the ceded territory, Jack could not
 Warrior. and go on fighting again. IL
 chief was in camp making threats and
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