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sequences, were unwilling or unable to punish the 

 aggressors. 



Blount was soon at his wits' ends to prevent the 

 outbreak of a general war. In November, 1792, he 

 furnished the War Department with a list of scores 

 of people men, women, and children who had 

 been killed in Tennessee, chiefly in the Cumberland 

 district, since the signing of the treaty of Holston. 

 Many others had been carried off, and were kept in 

 slavery. Among the wounded were General Rob- 

 ertson and one of his sons, who were shot, although 

 not fatally, in May, 1792, while working on their 

 farm. Both Creeks and Cherokees took part in the 

 outrages, and the Chickamauga towns on the Ten- 

 nessee, at Running Water, Nickajack, and in the 

 neighborhood, ultimately supplied the most persis- 

 tent wrongdoers. 50 



As Sevier remarked, the Southern, no less than 

 the Northern, Indians were much excited and en- 

 couraged by the defeat of St. Clair, coming as it 

 did so close upon the defeat of Harmar. The double 

 disaster to the American arms made the young 

 braves very bold, and it became impossible for the 

 elder men to restrain them. 51 The Creeks harassed 

 the frontiers of Georgia somewhat, but devoted their 

 main attention to the Tennesseeans, and especially to 



50 American State Papers, IV, Blount to Secretary of War, 

 Nov. 8, 1792; also page 330, etc. Many of these facts will be 

 found recited not only in the correspondence of Blount, but 

 in the Robertson MSS., in the "Knoxville Gazette," and in 

 Haywood, Ramsey, and Putnam. 



51 American State Papers, IV, pp. 263, 439, etc. 



