Peace and War on the Anglo-Cherokee Frontier, 1756–63 This page intentionally left blank Peace and War on the Anglo-Cherokee Frontier, 1756–63 John Oliphant Palgrave © John Oliphant 2001 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2001 978-0-333-77839-5 All rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency,90 Tottenham Court Road,London W1P 0LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2001 by PALGRAVE Houndmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG21 6XS Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVEis the new global academic imprint of St.Martin’s Press LLC Scholarly and Reference Division and Palgrave Publishers Ltd (formerly Macmillan Press Ltd). ISBN 978-1-349-41792-6 ISBN 978-0-230-59917-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230599178 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 For Pippa, Tim, Rolly and Ruth This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Maps ix Preface xi 1 Long Canes Creek: Anglo-Cherokee Relations to 1756 1 2 ‘Two Brothers Falling Out’: the Slide to War, 1756–59 31 3 Lyttelton’s Folly: How the Anglo-Cherokee War Began 69 4 ‘The Sweet Bond of Human Things’: Soldiers Seeking Peace 1760 113 5 The Carpenter and the Colonel 140 6 The Carpenter, the Corn Puller and the ‘Town of Lyes’ 169 Epilogue: Toward Augusta 191 Appendix: Prominent Cherokees 208 Notes 210 Bibliography 255 Index 264 vii This page intentionally left blank List of Maps 1 The Cherokee country 3 2 The Carolinas and Georgia 10 3 The Cherokee–South Carolina boundary, 1747–61 16 4 Virginia and Pennsylvania 40 5 Forbes’s route to Fort Duquesne, 1758 58 6 Montgomery’s route through the Lower Towns, 1760 124 7 Grant’s raid on the Middle Towns, 1761 160 8 The Cherokee–South Carolina boundary, 1761 and 1766 187 9 Timberlake’s map of the Overhill Towns, 1762 192 ix