The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-28

Town, he joined tho whites, and was General Floyds principal pilot. He was a daring man, very high tempered and easily irritated. He rendered much service to the whites. I volun- teered one night to so with Captain Harvey. of Jefferson County. Ga. on a scout from Fort Hall. Barney was our pilot: we were on horse back; I had taken the place of sick dragoon. Is the reason why I was on horseback. We crossed Line creek late in the night and about mile up Milly's creek from the old Federal road we found some Indians; we Killed two men and took Bob Moseley's wife and children. After the war and Alabama employed Barney to go with him to the Western District of Tennessee. On their route back, Barney got drunk; Lucas struck him with stick, (so Barney said;) Barney killed Lucass took his horse and some other things. and brought them to Alabama and told what he had done. He was tried by the Indians for the offense, and was condemned and shot near the road, on Riley was also fine soldier; had him with mo in Florida in 1918. If living. he is in Arkansas.
 The Big Warrior.
 The next Is the Big Warrior. the largest man ever saw among the Creeks. He was almost as spotted as Leopard. He was a Tuckabatchy, and the ranking chief in the Nation, and the principal chief of the Upper Towns. The Big Warrior was a de- scendant of the Hopungiesas. or Plan. keshaws. as the whites called them These people emigrated from New Mexico to the waters of the Ohio about hundred years after the Muscogees left the Gulf Coast, and settled in Ala bama and 8 portion of Georgia. Big Warrior used to boast much of his northern blood and ancestry; and that circumstance gave rise to the blun- ders of Colonel Pickett and MT. Com peer. about the Tuckabatchys being a Northern tribe and coming to the coun- try after the Tallassees and othefB had settled it. Big Warrior was a man of great cunning, and there Is but It, tie sincerity in his pretended friendship for the whites He was the father of Tuskenea, who was much better man. Tuskenea's mother and the Big Woman's mother was the same woman. Old Mad-Dog. who in his time held the same rank as the Big Warrior. was the father of the Big Woman. and Big Warrior was the father of Tuckenea A brother of Tuskenea's mother, the oldest man ever saw. fought with the French against Braddock. James Mo- Queen sent him with a party of Creeks to war with the English.
 In the revolution there never was Tallassee or a Netches known to take up arms against the colonies; there was the Influence of Mcqueen and Dick Moniac, the Hollander. Nat Collins and myself located this old Indian upon his land: forget his In- dian name. but he was called Billy by the whites He died in 1886.
 Colonel Pickett speaks of knowing Menauway. the leader at Horse Shoe. The Colonel or myself one Is mistaken. have known Menauway since 1909: the first time that I ever saw him was at Booths Indian store, on the Ocmulga. in 1909, he was there in company with Same Dale and Harrison Young, the brother of Simon Suggs. recollect that Young and Menauway were just getting over the small pox. they had both had the disease at Menauway's house at Ocfuskee. It was at that time ton for the first fight at Clinton. which I was telling you about.
 Menauway told me the way he escaped at Horse Shoe. He was badly wounded. and discovered that the whites and friendly Indians paid but little attention to the dead women, he got some women's clothes put them on. dragged two or three dead women to- gether, and lay Between them until night, and then escaped. I reckon the COW story was like the hog-skin at Taliadega, all a hoax.
 The Colonel says hundreds of Indians used to visit his fathers store. He is mistaken. there were some Indians, but many Of them were white men from Col. Roses peishborhood. Matthew Duncan. and others. I knew the place long before the Coloners father set tied 1t. and long after. he sold 1t to that miser, John Crayon, but he could not help being a miser
 I will send you some Georgia and S. Carolina sketches before long, and you can then account for Crayon's being a miser
 Respectfully,
 T. s. w.