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Oglethorpe goes to Charlestown, South Carolina, to open his Commission Comes back to Savannah Gives encouragement to the Planters Returns to Frederica Excursion to Coweta Forms a Treaty with the Upper Creeks Receives at Augusta a delegation of the Chickasaws and Cherokees, who complain of having been poisoned by the Traders On his return to Savannah is informed of Spanish aggressions, and is authorized to make reprisals,
"His stay, being very likely to be short, many successively sought audience of him, whose affairs he despatched with his usual promptness." "On the 17th he set off on his Indian expedition to Coweta: he proceeded up the river, in his cutter, with Lieutenant Dunbar, Ensign Leman, and Mr. Eyre, a cadet, besides attendants and servants.
The Upper Creeks, living upon the Alabama, Coosa, and Tallapoosa rivers, were not present at the Coweta town when James Oglethorpe treated with the Lower Creeks in August, 1730. At that time they were under the influence of the French, and afterwards they sought the protection of the Spaniards.
Oglethorpe goes to Charlestown, South Carolina, to open his Commission Comes back to Savannah Gives encouragement to the Planters Returns to Frederica Excursion to Coweta Forms a Treaty with the Upper Creeks Receives at Augusta a delegation of the Chickasaws and Cherokees, who complain of having been poisoned by the Traders On his return to Savannah is informed of Spanish aggressions, and is authorized to make reprisals.
From Wilkes, Burke, Elbert, and the region where Clarke and his men had fought, the tide of emigration slowly moved across the State, settling Greene, Hancock, Baldwin, Putnam, Morgan, Jasper, Butts, Monroe, Coweta, Upson, Pike, Meriwether, Talbot, Harris, and Muscogee counties.
He first met McGillivray, then in his early manhood, at the town of Coweta, the great war-town on the Chattahoochee, where the half-breed chief, seated on a bear-skin in the council-house, surrounded by his wise men and warriors, was planning to give aid to the British.
Now, McGillivray, in his day and time, represented the Upper Creeks of the Tallapoosa country and their policy, while William Mcintosh represented the Lower Creeks of the Coweta country and their policy.
A young boy named Noah, the son of Mr. Tyner, escaped in the general confusion, and hid himself in a hollow tree. This tree was for many years known as "Noah's Ark." Mary and Tamar, two daughters, were suffered to live; but the Indians carried them off to the Coweta towns on the Chattahoochee. These children remained with the Indians several years.
The authorities of Coweta offer THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS for the apprehension of the below, Iscah Nicholas, convicted of the murder of Elizabeth Slakto, an aged woman. General description: Age about forty-eight. Head receding, with large nose and stupid expression. Body corpulent but strong. Nicholas has no trade and works at general utility. He is a homicidal maniac.
For two hundred miles there was not a hut to be met with; nor a human face to be seen, unless by accident that of some Indian hunter traversing the woods. At length they arrived at Coweta, one of the principal towns of the Muscoghe, or Creek Indians, where the Chiefs of all the tribes were assembled, on the 11th of August.
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