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Towns, the Fat King of the White or Peace Towns, 

 the White Bird King, the Mad Dog King, and many 

 more. But they soon found that the Creeks were 

 quite as much to blame as the Georgians, and were 

 playing fast and loose with the United States, prom- 

 ising to enter into treaties, and then refusing to at- 

 tend; their flagrant and unprovoked breaches of 

 faith causing intense anger and mortification to the 

 Commissioners, whose patient efforts to serve them 

 were so ill rewarded. 7 Moreover, to offset the In- 

 dian complaints of lands taken from them under 

 fraudulent treaties, the Georgians submitted lists 8 of 

 hundreds of whites and blacks killed, wounded, or 

 captured, and of thousands of horses, horned cattle, 

 and hogs butchered or driven off by Indian war 

 parties. The puzzled Commissioners having at first 

 been inclined to place the blame of the failure of 

 peace negotiations on the Georgians, next shifted the 

 responsibility to McGillivray, reporting that the 

 Creeks were strongly in favor of peace. The event 

 proved that they were in error ; for after McGillivray 

 and his fellow chiefs had come to New York, in the 

 summer of 1790, and concluded a solemn treaty of 

 peace, the Indians whom they nominally represented 

 refused to be bound by it in any way, and con- 

 tinued without a change their war of rapine and 

 murder. 



In truth the red men were as little disposed as 

 the white to accept a peace on any terms that were 



1 American State Papers, Vol. IV, p. 74, September 26, 1789. 

 8 Do., p. 77, October 5, 1789. 



