Regarding Spanish-Indian relations on the frontier: Page #2

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A son of the bloody fellow (a Cherokee) and several other lads are now at school at New Orleans. The bloody fellow is now at N. Orleans on a visit at the request of the Baron de Carondelet. A letter of invitation to him has been seen by one of my friends in which the Baron say “I wish much to see you and the chiefs in general. Your runner I have seen and think it best for all the southern tribes to place themselves under the Spanish protection, from New Madrid down to Arkansaw (This is a scope of country about 800 miles in length). Red headed Will an influential character among the Cherokees with about 140 families descended the Tennessee the latter part of last winter crossed the Mississippi, and made a settlement on the west side, on a river called White river. John Taylor, a half breed, who went down with Will returned this summer, and the favourable accounts he gave of the country have occasioned five towns to agree to remove, but were prevailed upon by the bloody fellow