MOONEY] KNI) OK CHEK0KP:K WAH 1794 79 



in Kimniiii,'' Wiitcr town, four miles al)ovo, iicard the liriii<.r ;in<l tsime 

 iit once to the assistiince of their fi'ieiids, hut were driven haeiv iifter 

 attempting to hold their ground, and the second town shared the fate 

 of the tirst. More than fifty Indians had l)oen killed, a mmiher were 

 prisoners, Ijoth towns and all their eontents iiad been destroyed, with 

 a loss to the assailants of only three nu'n wounded, 'i'he Breath, the 

 chief of Running AVater, was among those? Iviiled. Two fresh scalps 

 with a large quantity of plunder from the settlements were found in 

 the towns, together with a supph' of aumiunition said to have been 

 furnished b^v the Spaniards.' 



Soon after the return of the expedition Robertson sent a message to 

 John Watts, the principal leader of the hostile Cherokee, threatening 

 a second visitation if the Indians did not very soon surrender their 

 prisoners and give assunuices of peace." The destruction of their 

 towns on Tennessee and Coosa and the utter defeat of the northern 

 confederates had now broken the courage of the Cherokee, and on their 

 own request Governor Blount held a conference with them at Tellico 

 t)lockhouse, November 7 and 8, 179Jr, at which Hanging-maw, head 

 chief of the Nation, and Colonel John "Watt, principal chief of the hos- 

 tile towns, with about four hundred of their warriors, attended. The 

 result was satisfactorj^; all diflferenees were arranged on a friendly 

 basis and the long Cherokee war came to an end.' 



Owing to the continued devastation of their towns during the Rev- 

 olutionary struggle, a number of Cherokee, principally of the Chicka- 

 niauga band, had removed across the Ohio about 1782 iind settled on 

 I'aint creek, a branch of the Scioto river, in the vicinity of their 

 friends and allies, the Shawano. In 1787 they were reported to num- 

 l)er about seventy w'arriors. They took an active part in the hostili- 

 ties along the Ohio frontier and were present in the great l)attle at the 

 Maumee rapids, by which the power of the confederated nortiier n tribes 

 was eflectually l)roken. As they had failed to attend the treaty con- 

 ference held at Greenville in August, 17t»5, General Wayne sent them 

 a special message, through their chief Long-hair, that if they refused 

 to come in and make terms as the others had done they would be con- 

 sidered outside the protection of the government. Upon this a part 

 of them came in and promised that as soon as they could gather their 

 crojjs the whole band would leave Ohio forever and return to their 

 people in the south.' 



1 Haywood, Political and Civil History of Tennessee, pp. 392-396. 1823; Ramsey, Tennessee (with 

 Major Ore's report), pp. 60S-('ilS, 1S53: Rojce, Clierokee Nation. Fifth .\nn. Rep. Biiroau Ethnology, p. 171, 

 IS.S8; Ore, Robertson, and Blonnt. reports, American State Papers: Indian .VITairs, i, pp. i32-fi34, 1832. 



2 Ramsey, op. cit., p. 018. 



^Tellico conference, November 7-8, 1794, American Statu Papers: Indian AITairs, i, pp. .SSG-SSS, 1832, 

 Roycc, op. cit., p, 173: Ramsey, op. cit., p. .5%. 



« Beaver's talk, 1784, Virginia State Papers, iii, p. 571, 1883; McDowell, report, 1786, ibid., iv, p. 118, 

 18S4; McDowell, report. 1787, ibid., p. 286: Todd, letter, 1787, ibid., p. 277; Tellico conference, Novem- 

 ber 7, 179 1, American .State Papers: Indian Affairs,!, p. 538, 1832; Greenville treaty conference, August, 

 1793, ibid., pp. 58'2-583. 



