Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-05-28
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CIV. S. S., in Easley Progress.)
During the stirring times of the
American Colonies against the Brit
ish there ilrvd at Swansea Rock, on
the line of Anderson and Pickens
counties, stawart Indian by the
name of Kieessa, who measured six
feet and seven iches high. He was
as swift as the wild deer that roam
ed in the dense forest around his
native home, and he and Horseshoe
Robinson, who was his nearest neigh
bor, often joined together in hunting
an trapping excursions. During one
Of their visits to their traps, as they
were on their way back, they found
that a band of Tories had invaded
Kieessas home, taking away almost
all Of his goods, together with his
nesstee. As quick as they could get
ready they went in bot chase, and
for days they followed on their
track, never losing it, partly from
the fact that Connesstee had on a
robe that was decorated systemat-
ically all over with the feathers
from pheasants' tails, and one would
drop on the Indian trail occasion
ally.
On the sixth night, as they were
in camp, they discovered lights in
the distance and concluded that af-
ter they had partaken of their dried
venison they would make an investi-
cation, and SO, moving in the dark
as sly as foxes, they came to large
tent on the brink of a deep gulley,
and crept ur the gulley until they
came to Joint opposite the tent;
then the Indian stood up against the
bank and Horseshoe climbed up on
the Indians shoulders and pulled
himself up by bush that grew on
the bank. He soon found that he
was in the rear Of Fergusons tent,
and, hearing loud talking, he lay
and listened, and found that a bag
OF gold had been received by him to
pay off the soldiers under his charge,
and that he could not pay them un-
til he dislodged Morgan, who was
stationed on Kings Mountain, and
that he was going to slip upon him
before the gray dawn and capture
him before breakfast. Then Horse
shoe saw a slight quiver Of the tent
cloth near him, and on looking close
iy he saw little brown object pro-
truding from beneath the tent, and
it was the sleeve of Connestee's
robe. Cutting buckskin thong
from his robe he tied it securely to
the bush and slid quietly down to
where Kieessa was resting. Then
they agreed to make an attack on
the tent in the morning while Fer
guson's troops were marching to the
rear of Morgan.
So next morning while the taps
were sounding Horseshoe Robinson
and Kieessa were crouched at the
back of the tent, and as the troops
began to move, Kieessa struck up
the note of the nightingale so per-
fectly that the British soldiers
thought they were hearing the song
Of the night warbler, but Connestee
knew that it was the, note Of her
father, and, as the sound OF the sol
diers' feet were dying in the dist
ance the two crept steaNhiiy in
through the tent and dropped
hatchet at the feet of each of the
womefi, who picked them up quickly
and slipped out to the rear OF the
guard, and as Horseshoe and Kie-
essa struck the guard In front the
women attacked them from the rear,
and CONSERVATION reigned among
them until they we're all felled to
the ground. Then they went in, and.