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The transporting of the Indians meant transport to the West 
Indies as slaves, that being one of the amiable ways of civilizing 
redskins to which our ancestors were addicted. The fate of these un- 
fortunate Coosa is uncertain, but evidently the war came to an end 
alter the aforesaid expedition. From a note based on information 
obtained from Governor West we learn that the — 
Cossoes [were] to pay a dear skin monthly as an acknowledgm* or else to loose our 
amitie. 1 
This must have been one of the agreements when peace was made. 
In 1674, in some instructions to Henry Woodward, the Earl of 
Shaftesbury says: "You are to treate with the Indians of Edisto 
for the Island and buy it of them and make a Friendship with 
them." 2 
Whether the order was carried out at that time does not appear. 
Meantime the Coosa Indians were again restless. The Council 
Journals for August 3, 1674, contain the following: 
And forasmuch as it is credibly informed that the Kussoe Indians have secretly 
murdered 3 Englishmen and as these Indians have noe certaine abode Resolved that 
Capt. Man: Mathews, M r W m Owen, cap* Rich d Conant & M r Ra: Marshall doe inquire 
where the s' J Indians may be taken then to raise a party of men as they shall think 
eonven 1 under command of thes d cap* Conant or any other parties under other com- 
manders to use all meanes to come up with the s d Indians wheresoever to take or de- 
Btroy all or any of them, the whole matter being left to their advisemV 
Still earlier the colonists had begun to experience difficulties with the 
Stono, as this entry under date of July 25 attests: 
For as &c it is credibly informed that the Indian Stonoe Casseca hath endeavored 
to confederate certaine other Indians to murder some of the English nation & to rise 
in Rebellion ag 1 this Settem* Resolved that capt. Mau: Mathews doe require & com- 
mand nine men of the Inhabi" of this Settlem* to attend him in this exped n to take 
the s d Indian and him cause to be brought to Charlestowne to answer to these things 
but if any opposition happen the s d capt. Mathews is to use his discret n in the managm 1 
thereof for the security of himself & the s d party of men whether by killing & destroying 
the s d Indian & his confederates or otherwise. 3 
According to the Council Journals of January 15, 1675, "some 
neighbor Indians" had expressed a desire to be settled into a town 
near Charleston. 1 
To carry out the terms of the constitution drawn up for Carolina 
by John Locke a number of "baronies" were created in South Caro- 
lina, many of them by purchase of land from the Indian proprietors. 
Thus the land constituting Ashley barony on Ashley River was 
obtained from the Coosa Indians who surrendered it in the following 
terms: 
To all menner of People, &c, know ye that wee, the Cassiques naturell Born Hears 
& Sole owners & proprietors of great & lesser Cussoe, lying on the river of Kyewah, the 
» S. Car. Hist. Soc. Coll>\, v, p. 388. 3 ibid., p. 451. 
i Ibid., p. 445. < Ibid., p. 475. 
