MooNEY] TRKATIKS OF DE WITTS CORNERS ANI> LONO ISLAND 53' 



scalji th(Mii iniiiu'diately." Tlu' pi'isoiicrs wore accord inijly sold for 

 about tAvchc liimdi'ed dollai's.' 



At tlio Wolf Hills .settloiiHMit. now Aliiiiudoii. ^'il•^■illia. a party sent 

 out from the foi't returned with the scalps of eleven warriors. Haviiiii' 

 recovei'ed tlie hooks which tiieir ininister liad left hehiiul in iiis cabin, 

 they held a service of prayer for their success, after which tlie fi-(\sh 

 scalps were hune' u{)on a pole above the gate of the foi't. The l)arl)a- 

 rous custom of scalpino- to which the border men had become habitu- 

 ated in the earlier wars was practiced upon every occasion when 

 opportunity pi-esented. at least upon the bodies of wari-iors. and the 

 South Cart)lina lejiislature oii'ered a liounty of seventy-five pounds tor 

 every warrior's scalp, a higher reward, however. Iieing oti'ercd for 

 prisoners." In spite of all the l)itterness which the war aroused there 

 seems to l)e no record of any scalping of Tories or other whites by the 

 Americans (21). 



The effect upon the Cherokee of this irruption of more than six 

 thousand armed enemies into their tei-ritory was well nigh paralyzing. 

 More tlian tifty of their towns had ))een burned, their orchards cut 

 down, their lields wasted, their cattle and horses killed or driven ofl'. 

 their stores of buckskin and other personal property plundered. 

 Hundreds of their people had Ijeen killed or had died of starvation 

 and exposure, others wei'e prisoners in the hands of the Americans, 

 and some iiad been sold into slavery. Those who had escaped were 

 fugitives in the mountains, living upon acorns, chestnuts, and wild 

 game, or were refugees with the British.^ From the Virginia line to 

 the Chattahoochee the chain of destruction was complete. For the 

 present at least any further resistance was hopeless, and they were 

 compelled to sue for peace. 



By a treaty concluded at DeWitts Corners in South Carolina on Ma}' 

 2<», 1777. the first ever made with the new states, the Lower Cherokee 

 surrendered to the conqu(>ror all of their remaining territory in South 

 Carolina, excepting a narrow strip along the western boundary. Just 

 two months later, on July 20, by treaty at the Long island, as had been 

 arranged liy Christian in the preceding fall, the ^liddle and Upper 

 Cherokee ceded everything east of the Blue ridge, together with all 

 the disputed tei'ritory on the Watauga, Nolichucky, upper Holston, 

 and New ri\ers. By this second treaty also Captain James Robei'tson 

 was appointed agent for the Cherokee, to reside at Echota, to watch 

 their movements, recover any captured property, and prevent their 

 correspondence with ])ersons luifriendly to tiie American cause. As 

 tlie Federal government was not yet in perfect operation these treaties 



' J[oore's narrative, in North Carolina University Magazine, February, 1888. 



= Roosevelt, Winning of the West, I. pp. 285, 290, 303. 1S8'J. 



3 About live hundred sought refuge with Stuart, the British Indian superintendent in Florida, 

 where they were fed for some time at the expense of the British government (Jones, Georgia, ii, 

 p. 246, 1883). 



