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Updated: May 8, 2025
I am your enemy I shall ever be; but to fight you would only be the destruction of my people. We are in your power, and you can do with us as you will." But the chiefs of the lower towns would not yield, and made the fight. In a short time this was concluded by the capture of their leading chief, Nehemathla.
He was decoyed by treachery into the power of General Jessup, who detained him as a prisoner, and almost immediately his band surrendered. Nehemathla was an Onchee chief. This was the remnant of a tribe absorbed into the nation of the Creeks or Muscogees, and was probably one of those inferior bands inhabiting the land when this nation came from the West and took possession of the country.
Concluding his song with one shrill whoop, he dropped his head and lifted up his hands then prone upon the earth he threw himself, kissed it, rose up, and seemed prepared for the fate he surely expected. Nehemathla spoke English fluently, and all his conversation was in that language.
They had dwindled to a handful at the time of his capture, but more obstinately determined to remain and die upon their parental domain, than any other portion of the nation. Nehemathla was more than eighty years of age at the time of his capture. When brought into the presence of General Jessup, he expected nothing short of death.
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