The Civil and Political History of the State of Tennessee From Its Earliest Settlement up to... Book

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...Killed by the Indians in 1782--Counties of Knox and Jefferson--Creeks Kill While Men in the Cherokee Nation--Spaniards Incite the Indians; Their Violences; Rout Henly's Company and Take Him Prisoner--Gov. Blount's Speech to the Indians--Militia Raised under Sevier, 1792--People Averse from the Service against the Insurgents--Indifference of the General Government to the Sufferings of the Western People--Fort Erected at West Point by Gen. Sevier--Why Chosen--Indian Depredations--Cherokees Obtained a Junction with the Whites Again at the Northwards--Causes of Indian Hostilities Explained--Henderson Purchased the Cherokee Claim--Chickasaw Claim--Donalson and Martin--Their Treaty with the Indians, 1783--Claim and Cession of the Six Nations--Virginia Boundary--Correspondence between the Governor of Virginia and Gov. Blount--Documents Concerning the Boundary--Gen. Sevier's Instructions to Col. Christian--Watts Wished for Peace--Sevier with His Army Ordered to Knoxville--Troops Discharged--Property Stolen--Persons Killed and Wounded, 1793--Spaniards Incite the Indians to War--The People Embody to Take Satisfaction of the Indians--Dispersed by the Governor's Proclamation--Creeks Bent on War--Perplexing Occurrences--Troops Ordered--Instructions to the Officers How to Act--Creek Army--Douglass Killed--Exhortations to Peace--Scouting Parties--Spaniards--Panton--Morris, the Chickasaw, Killed--General Government Censured by the People--Killed and Wounded, 1793--Indians Killed at Hanging Maws by Beard's Party--Militia Ordered to Be in Readiness--Ordered to March to Knoxville--Invasion of the Creeks and Cherokees Apprehended--Horses Stolen by the Indians--Action between a Party of Indians and Whiles--Indians on Their Way Home with Scalps and Horses--Indians at Doherty's M...