THOMAS) Georgia's policy toward thk Indians fi35 



kiugs and chief's of tlie Creek nation, and enluied into a treaty of ;uuity and oom- 

 mevcc witli tliem, raakini; a transfer of tlie wliole nation and all tUeir lands, and 

 agreeing to live nnder and iiecome the snbjects of his majesty's government in 

 common with the white colonists of Georgia. It was fnrther stipnlated that a I'reo 

 and complete right and title, was granted to the trustees for all the lands between 

 Savannah and Vltamaha rivers, extending west to the extremity of the tide water, 

 and ini hiding all the islands on the coast from Tybee to St Simons' inclusively, 

 reserving to themselves the islands of Ossabaw, Sapeloe and St ('atherines, for the 

 purposes of hunting, bathing, and fishing — also the tract of land lying between 

 Pi|)e-maker's bluff and Pallychuckola creek, above Yamacraw bluff, now Savannah; 

 which lands the Indians reserved to themselves for an encampment, when they came 

 to visit their beloved friends at Savannah. . . . This treaty was signed by Ogle- 

 thorpe on the part of the king of England, and by Tomochichi and the otlier chiefs 

 and headmen on the part of the Creek nation; it was transmitted to the trustees 

 and formally ratified on the 18th of October, 1733. 



By this treaty the Indians also grafitetl to the, trustees all the lands 

 ou Savannah river as far as the Ogeechee, and all the lands along the 

 seacoast as far as St John river and as high as the tide flowed. 

 McCall says the grant extended to the Altatnaha, but White is cer- 

 tainly corret-t in limiting it by the Ogeeohee, as is shown by the treaty 

 of 17.'5!l nifiitioued below. 



In March, 1730, Governor Oglethorpe wrote to the trustees that 

 "King ToinoGhachi and his nephew Tooanoghoni and the Beloved 

 Man Unipechee," had agreed they should possess the island of St 

 Simons but reserved St Catherine to themselves. 



Frotn a letter to Mr Causton, dated March 17, 1730, it would seem 

 that the lands had been purjhased as far northwest as Ebeuezer creek, 

 in what is now Ellinghain county. "You are to notice," he says, 

 "that the Trustees' orders for preventing Peoples settling beyond the 

 River Ebenezer be executed by the projjcr officer. The Indians having 

 complained that some ])ersoiis have settled over against Palachocola 

 and some near the mouth of Ebeuezer.'' 



Another letter to the trustees, dated May 18, 1738, informs ns of 

 what the Indians had made complaint, and shows also Governor Ogle- 

 thorpe's desire to keep faith with them. He says: 



Some private men have taken great pains to incense the Indians against the Span- 

 iards and again.st the Colony of Georgia particularly. Capt. Green who I am 

 informed has advised the Uchee Indians to fall upon the Saltzburgers for settling 

 upon their Lands, the occasion of which was an indiscreet action of one of the Saltz- 

 bnrgers who cleared and planted four acres of Land beyond the Ebeuezer contrary 

 to my orders and without my knowledge. Thej' also turned their cattle over 

 the River some of whom str.ayed away and eat the Uchees corn 20 miles above Ebe- 

 nezer. But what vext the Uchees more was that some of the Carolina peoi>le swam 

 a great Herd of Cattle over Savannah and sent up Negroes and began a Plantation 

 on the Georgia side not far from the Uchees Town. The Uchees instead of taking 

 Greeu's advice and beginning Hostilities with us sent up their King and 20 Warriors 

 with a Message of thanks to me for having ordered back the Cattle and sent aw.ay 

 the Negroes which I did as soon as ever i arrived. They told me that my having 

 done them justice before they asked it made them love me and not believe the stories 

 that were told them against me and that therefore instead of beginning a War with 



