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JHONCHEST ER,^ (Virginia) Sept. io.
"4 From the Jufiices of the Court of Abbeville,
now fitting , to the People living on No
fi lechuckjy French Broad and tioulfion •
WE have lately, through various chan
nels, received information, that the Che
rokees on your fide of the mountains have
received many injuries, and fuffered very
great calamities, from some among you,
who pretend to aft by the authority of
your government, or with the general ap
probation of the people in your fcttle
ments.
- While the Headmen from Highwaffie
were coming to meet in a conference to
which they were invited, a party from
your settlements went round and murder
ed seven of the Indians, who were peace
able working in their corn fields; —nine
also were murdered at Chilowee; —thirty
have been (laughtered on the Tenafee, and
one made a prifonerthe inhabitants of
Chota and five other towns have been
forced, by the outrages committed on
them, to abandon their settlements and
their crops of corn, and fiy to this fide of
the mountains for peace and proteftion*
A friendly letter was written to them,
Tequefting them to return and live again at
their towns, and also to fend in a runner,
with a white flag, which they were told
was facrcd by the law of nations. A few
days after this a party from among you
came to Cittico, and there murdered two
Indians—men who had remained in their
houses: The party then proceeded to
Chilhowee, and raised a white flag i on
which the Old TafTel, Old Abraham, his
son, and the Leech, Indian Chiefs re
markable good offices and fidelity
in the darkest situation of our affairs, rais
ed a flag on their part, and came out}
they came under the proteftion of a flag ,
of truce, a proteftion inviolable even
amongst the most barbarous people, and
in the charafter of Ambafladors; a law
held sacred by the custom and law of na
tions, and by the consent of mankind' in
every age i But under this charafter, and
with the sacred proteftion of a flag, Ihey
were attacked and murdered.
Your bosoms will no doubt burn with
resentment at the recital of those unpro
voked injuries, as ours did when we re
ceived the information, information which
we are grieved to find so well authenti
cated. The objefts of thefc murders and
mafi'acreß were an harmless and peaceable,
and almost defencelefc people—circum
flances which give them a just claim to
the compassion of every humane and noble
W mind, and it is unworthy American va-
lour and heroism, which bled in the cause
of liberty, and defended it when attacked
by the most formidable power, to kill and
plunder a few naked unarmed savages,
who wish for nothing but to possess their
lands, and kill their venison in peace:
They are also a free and independent na
tion,. to whom the proteftion of the Unit
ed States has been granted, for their free
dom and poffeflions, by the most solemn
treaties ; and they are our allies and
friends—friends who adhered to us in the
darkest season of our affairs, when the
other Indian tribes, and even a great
part of this nation, united against us, to
aid the Britifti in their attempts to lay the
yoke of slavery on our necks: These
people have also couftantly teftified the
most friendly disposition towards your set
tlements, and when attacks have been me
ditated, or expeditions set on foot against
you by the .Creeks, have given you time
ly warning of the danger.
Far be it from us to imagine that their
wanton and infyumin injuries to the peace
able and faithful allies, their unmanly at
tack upon unarmed and unfulpefting ra
vages, their violations of treaties, in
fractions ot the law of nations and rights
of men, and wanton outrages on the feel
ings of humanity, have been perpetrated
by the order, with the approbation, or
even knowledge, of the whole people
whom we now address ; you feel uo less
warmly than we do the indignation and
horror which such conduct ought to iu
fpire in generous and noble minds; but
all people have bad men among them,
therefore it is highly incumbent that the
virtuous and conliderate part of the com
munity watch over the actions of the un
deferviug, to prevent them from involv
ing their country in calamities, to gratify
their own bale and unworthy pillions.
By a Arid i'earch you may find out the
perlons who come within the above de
feription, and you are bonnd by every tie
of juitice and honor, duty and found po
licy, to retrain such as they are from fi- j
milar conduct in future: This is what J
the Indians themselves have done, in late
ly lentencing to death one of their people,
who was concerned, in kilting a white
man belonging to this bate.
We therefore, being citizens of the
United States with yourselves, anticipate
the evils that must neceffariiy flow from
the impropriety of palling unnoticed such
mifeonduct in a few individuals, afting
from the meanest and baled motives, and
which, as far as is known to us, appears
to be totally unprovoked on the part of
the Cherokees, and which may tend to de
feat the treaty now on foot between the
Creeks and Georgians, under the auspices
of Congress, and which, from the just and
peaceable difpolition of the Indian Chiefs,
give us reason to hope for the mod happy
effects.
We flatter ourselves this letter will have
its due effect, in preventing such disorders 1
for the future, as vve can allure you, on
our parts, it proceeds from our sincere
affedtions towards you, and a with to re
ltore peace and harmony to ail parties.
We have the honor to be, very re
fpwdliuily, &c.
John Bowie, Charles Goodwin, R.
A. Roplay, R. G. Harper, Wil
liam Suaw, A. C. Jones, Pa
trick Calhoun, Andrew Pickens,
• Robert Anderfou, William Baf
kin, A. Hamilton, James Lin
coln.
Abbeville County , South-
Carolina , July 9, 17S8.
On Friday the Bth of August lafl: a par
ty of armed men, confiding of 31, un
der the command of Capt. John Fain, left
Houlflon station, on Nine Mile Creek,
and eroded the river Tenafee, about eight
or nine miles distant, in order to gather
apples in the vicinity of an Indian town
called Cittico, lately abandoned by the
Cherokees ; the Indians fuffered them to
pass the river unmolested, and, immedi
ately, unperceived by our people, took
pofletfion of the ford they had eroded,
likewise another at a small diflance above;
by this time some of* our people were in
the orchard, and some on the trees, ga
thering fruit, when they were suddenly
attacked by a body of the favageson all
quarters; this sudden and unexpected
alarm threw them into the utnfoft con
fufion, so that every man, who did not
immediately fall, endeavoured to make a
retreat; but, the savages being in pofl'ef
fion of the fording places, a number took
the river, and, whilst endeavouring to
| escape by fwlmming, fcvftral were kin
P and wounded ; -the latter werp n ,„r
and mod of them fell a facrifice to
barbarity.
The following is a lift of the Un W.
nate men killed and wounded:
KILLED. John Fain, Captain - r
leb Jones, jofeph Alexander, VanpL
field, Wiiham Lang, Jonathan Dean t"
Brannon, William Englifti, j ohn v ’f
lock, Fvobert Huston, George Mathew.'
Isaac Anderlbn, Charles p a y aCj Luth *
Johnson, Hermon Gregg, George^ u i,
WOUNDED. Ehtha Haddon U
Kirk, Thomasßrown, Buiio^
AXJ GU ST A, Nov .
GEORGIA, 1
BURKE COUNTY. 5
Oftoker Term, 1788.
In the SUPERIOR COURT
It is ordered ,
, That the Presentments of the Gran*
I Jury of the prefeut Terra, be publiihcdi,
the State. Gazette.
lft ‘ \7i/ E P rcf «nt as a great grier.
▼ ▼ ance, that the troops that
are already railed for the defence of the
state, are not kept in the frontier counties
of the lame, ir» order as much as pofiibl:
to prevent the ravages of the Indians. *
2d, We present as a great and perni
cious evil, that there are a number of p er .
sons fuffered to live openly and publickly
together (against the law? of God and
this state) in adultery and fornication;
particularly Abfolom Wallis, having |
wife, auJ doth cohabit with and keep
another woman named Sarah Howe!!
otherwise Sarah Reid: Also William
Hinds, for publickly keeping and cohabit
ing with Mary Graham, the wifeofjohn
Graham i Alio Thomas Spikes, having
a wife, and keeping publickly and coha
biting with Lydea Butts : Also Joshua
luman, he having a wife, and keeping
publickly and cohabiting with Betfey*
R^wles: Also Simon Sacket, tothedif
grace of human nature, publickly keeping
and cohabiting with Anne Jordon, who,
during the life time of her husband, Ma
thew Jordon, bore a child, which said Sac
ket acknowledged to be his.
3d.- We present the Commiflionersof
the road from M‘lntolli Creek down to
the Beaver Dam Creek, for their not keep
ing the fame in repair.
4th. We present James Jones, John
’ Brownfon and John Davenport, Coramif
fioners for clearing Briar Creek, for the
negleft of their duty as Commiflioners.
sth. We present Jonathan Kemp, Ro
bert Allen, and Joseph Hampton, Com
miflioners of the road from the Quaker
road to for their not opening
and clearing said road.
6th. We present John Pierce, John
Clements, aud Blaflingham Harvey, Cora
miffioners of the road leading from
Waynelborough to Rocky Comfort, for
their not keeping the said road in repai:-
7 th. We present Jolhua Inman, [an. *
Gaynes, John Wade, and Thomas Poyth
ref», as gamblers - t therefore a uuiiance
to this county.
Bth. We present Jacob Sharp, E t hra;nt
Peebles, Edmund Low and WiHiarn Tho
mas, for horse racing on the Sabbat*
day.
<jth. We present the following
sons for retailing of spirituous liquors
fmali quantities without licence, viz.
Beil, Pvobert Dixon, James White, 1 •
Sapp, and John Hammer, by informal