Creeks and Cherokees will Join in War
Item
Type
Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Title
Creeks and Cherokees will Join in War
Description
David Craig reports, in considerable detail, to Governor William Blount on the state of Indian affairs on the southern frontiers. There have already been depredations and Craig believes that the Creeks and Cherokees will join the Shawnees and will commit many more acts of violence and may indeed engage in a general war against the whites in their territories.
year created
1792
month created
03
day created
15
author
sent from location
Knoxville
recipient
in collection
in publication
note
Cited in Blount to Knox, 03/20/1792, and enclosed in Blount to Knox, 03/20/1792.
content note
American State Papers, Indian Affairs
cited note
Cited document that was neither sent to nor from the War Office
notable person/group
William Blount
David Craig
Little Turkey
Richard Justice and the Glass chiefs of the Cherokees
Mr. McKee
Dragging Canoe
white boy 10 or 12 years of age
Northward Indians
prisoner
Turtle-at-home
white girl, aged about eight years
her mother and one child
bad Indians
General Bowles, commander-in-chief of the Creek and Cherokee nations
Moses Price, a sensible half-breed
Southern tribes
Shawanese
General St. Clair
[Alexander] McGillivray
Chickasaws
lower town Cherokees
Northern tribes
Colonel Hunter
Path Killer
John Watts
Governor Blount
notable location
Knoxville
Look-out Mountain town
Natchez to Nashville
the barrens between Cumberland and Kentucky
England
East Florida
the Tennessee
Running Water
Chatanuga [Chatanooga] mountain
Nickajack
Long-Island
Crow town
Hiwassee
Chota
Hanging Maw
five Lower towns
notable item/thing
two scalps
salt
scalp-dance
forms, gestures, exultations, and declarations of a war-dance
scalp of the woman and child
killing of women and children
Eagle-tail dance
friendship
horses
public messengers
painting of Bowles and two Cherokee chiefs
dining cards (copper plate)
free port in East Florida
lands claimed by the Creeks and Cherokees
their invitation fo the Cherokees to join them against the United States
general confederacy
handsome black gelding
peace
boats
heavy firing
no injury was sustained
war
ammunition
death of the Dragging Canoe
council
the late murders
notable phrase
It is my opinion that the present prospects and information warrants a belief, and hardly leaves a doubt, that many of the Creeks and the Cherokees, generally of the five Lower towns, will join the Shawanese in war and that they will murder and steal horses on the frontiers and from all weak parties wherever found if they do not engage in a general national war.
document number
1792031590000
Item sets
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Document names
| Type | Name | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | David Craig | Knoxville | [n/a] |
| Recipient | William Blount | [unknown] | [n/a] |