Louisiana and Aaron Burr 175 



his possession. So sincere did they seem that he 

 gave them the goods. 53 



This meeting began on the ijth of May, yet on 

 the 1 6th, within twelve miles of Knoxville, two boys 

 were killed and scalped while picking strawberries, 

 and on the I3th a girl had been scalped within four 

 miles of Nashville; and on the i/th itself, while 

 Judge Campbell of the Territorial Court was return- 

 ing from the Cumberland Circuit his party was at- 

 tacked and one killed. 54 



When such outrages were committed at the very 

 time the treaty was being held, it was hopeless to 

 expect peace. In September the Chickamaugas 

 threw off the mask and made open war. When the 

 news was received Blount called out the militia and 

 sent word to Robertson that some friendly Chero- 

 kees had given warning that a big war party was 

 about to fall on the settlements round Nashville. 55 

 Finding that the warning had been given, the Chick- 

 amauga chiefs sought to lull their foes into security 

 by a rather adroit piece of treachery. Two of their 

 chiefs, The Glass and The Bloody Fellow, wrote to 

 Blount complaining that they had assembled their 

 warriors because they were alarmed over rumors of 

 a desire on the part of the whites to maltreat them ; 

 and on the receipt of assurances from Blount that 



63 "Knoxville Gazette," March 24, 1792; American State 

 Papers, IV, Blount to Secretary of War, June 2, 1792, with 

 minutes of conference at Coyatee. 



64 "Knoxville Gazette," June 2, 1792. 



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

 Sept. ii, 1792. 



