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This was a young French adventurer, Milfort, who in 1776 journeyed through the insurgent colonies and became an adopted son of the Creek nation.
Milfort, Tastanegy ou grand chef de guerre de la nation Creck et General de Brigade au service de la République Française." Paris, 1802. Writing in 1781, he said Mobile contained about forty proprietary families, and was "un petit paradis terrestre." Bartram, 407. Magazine of American History, IV., 388. Letter of a New England settler in 1773. "Annals of St. Louis." Frederic L. Billon. St.
MS. copy of Matthew Clarkson's Journal in 1766. Do. Memoirs of the Hist. Soc. of Penn., 1826. Account of first settlements, etc., by John Watson . Do. An admirable account of what such a frolic was some thirty-five years later is to be found in Edward Eggleston's "Circuit Rider." Such incidents are mentioned again and again by Watson, Milfort, Doddridge, Carr, and other writers.
It was often conferred upon the chief dignitaries of the whites in writing to them. Hawkins, 37. Bartram, 386. The Uchee town contained at least 1,500 people. Do. Hawkins, 30. Hawkins 39; Adair, 408. Bartram, 184. Milfort, 212. Hawkins, 67. Milfort, 203. Bartram, 386. Adair, 418. Hawkins and Adair, passim. Do. Also vide Bartram. Hawkins, 29, 70. Adair, 428.
"History of Alabama," by Albert James Pickett, Charleston, 1851, II., 30. A valuable work. Milfort, 23, 326. Milfort's book is very interesting, but as the man himself was evidently a hopeless liar and braggart, it can only be trusted where it was not for his interest to tell a falsehood.
Adair, Bartram. Bartram. "A Sketch of the Creek Country," Benjamin Hawkins. In Coll. Ga. Hist. Soc. Written in 1798, but not published till fifty years afterwards. Do, p. 33. The use of the word "beloved" by the Creeks was quite peculiar. It is evidently correctly translated, for Milfort likewise gives it as "bien aimé."
Phelan, in his "History of Tennessee," deserves especial praise for having so clearly understood the part played by the Scotch-Irish. The Campbell MSS. contain allusions to various such feuds, and accounts of the jealousies existing not only between families, but between prominent members of the same family. See Milfort, Smyth, etc., as well as the native writers.
During the war, McGillivray frequently acted in concert with the notorious Daniel McGirth, sometimes leading his Indians in person; but his main dependence was on his brother-in-law Milfort, who was possessed of the most daring spirit. McGillivray preferred to plan and engage in intrigue, which gave the remarkable powers of his mind full play.
VI., p. 1228. See Milfort, pp. 46, 134, etc. "American Archives," 4th Series, Vol. I., p. 1094, for example of fight between Choctaws and Creeks. Do., Vol. IV., p. 317. Letter of Agent John Stuart to General Gage, St. Augustine, Oct. 3, 1775. State Department MSS. No. 71, Vol. II., p. 189. "American Archives," Vol. III., p. 218, August 21, 1775. Do., p. 790 September 25, 1775.
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