40 MYTHS OK THK CHKKOKKK 



Ikth.ann. 19 



He adds that only dire necessity iiad induced thorn to make peace 

 with the English in 1761/ 



In accordance with the treaty stij)uiati()ns Fort Prince George was 

 built in 1756 adjoining the important Cherokee town of Keowee, on 

 the headwaters of the Savannah, and Fort Loudon near the junction 

 of Tellico river with the Little Tennessee, in the center of the 

 Cherokee towns ))ey()nd the mountains." By special arrangement with 

 the influential chief. Ata-kullakuUa (Ata'-gur'kalu'),-' Fort Dobbs was 

 also built in the same year a))out 2n miles west of the present Salis- 

 bury. North Carolina.* 



The Cherokee had agreed to furnish foui' hundred warriors to 

 cooperate against the French in the north, liut before Fort Loudon 

 had been completed it was very evident that they had repented of 

 their promise, as tlieir great council at Echota ordered the work 

 stopped and the garrison on the way to turn back, plainlj^ telling the 

 officer in charge that they did not want so many white people among 

 them. Ata-kuUakulla. hitherto supposed to be one of the stanchest 

 friends of the English, was now one of the most determined in the oppo- 

 sition. It was in evidence also that they were in constant communi- 

 cation with the French. By much tact and argument their objec- 

 tions were at last overcome for a time, and they very unwillingly set 

 about raising the promised force of warriors. Major Andrew Lewis, 

 who superintended the building of the fort, became convinced that 

 the Cherokee were really friendly to the French, and that all their 

 professions of friendship and assistance were ' ' onlj' to put a gloss on 

 their knaveiy." The fort was finally completed, and, on his suggestion, 

 was garrisoned with a strong force of two hundred men under Captain 

 Demere.' There was strong ground for believing that some depreda- 

 tions committed about this time on the heads of Catawba and Broad 

 rivers, in North Carolina, were the joint work of Cherokee and nortiiern 

 Indians.'' Notwithstanding all this, a considerable body of Cherokee 

 joined the British foi'ces on the Virginia frontier.' 



Fort I)u Quesn(> was taken by the American provincials under Wash- 

 ington. November 25, 175S. Quebec was taken September 13, 175'J, 

 and by the final treaty of peace in 1763 the war ended with the transfer 

 of Canada and thi» Ohio valley to the crown of Elngland. Louisiana 

 had already been ceded )jy France to Spain. 



Although France was thus eliminated from the Indian problem, the 



' Timberlako, Henry, Memoirs, pp. 73, 74; London, 176.=i. 



- Ramsey. Tennessee, p. .51, 18.53; Royce, Cherokee Nation, in Fiftli Ann. Kept. Bur. of Ethnology, 

 p. 145, 1888. 



3 For notice see Ata'-g(ll"kill<j', in the glossary. 



^ Ramsey, op. eit., p. .50. 



•'Letters of Major -Vndrew I^ewis an<l Governor Dinwiddio. IT.'if'i. in North Carolina Colonial Records 

 V, pp. .58.5, 61'2-til4, iBo, 6:i7, 1887: Ramsey, op, cit., iip. 61. W. 



Letter of Governor Dobbs, 17.56, in North Carolina Colonial Records, v, p. tiOl, 1887, 



" Din^viddic letter, 1757, ibid., p, 7ti5. 



