fiatboat nearly a year before. His father and the
other men of the party, about ten in all, had been killed at the time.
while the mother and several other children were carried to various
Indian towns, some of them going to the Creeks, who had aided the
Cherokee in the capture. Young Brown, whose short and simple
narrative is of vivid interest, was at first condemned to death, but was
rescued by a white man living in the town and was afterward adopted
into the family of the chief, in spite of the warning of an old Indian
woman that if allowed to live he would one day guide an army to
destroy them. The warning was strangely prophetic, for it was
Brown himself who guided the expedition that finally rooted out the
Chickamauga towns a few yearslater. When rescued at Coosawatee
he was in Indian costume, with shirt, breechcloth, scalp lock, and
holes bored in his ears. His little sister, five years old. had become
so attached to the Indian woman who had adopted her. that she
refused to go to her own mother ami had to be pulled alone- by force. 3
The mother and another of the daughters, who had been taken by the
Creeks, were afterwards ransomed by McGillivray, head chief of the
Creek Nation, who restored them to their friends, generously refusing
any compensation for his kindness.
An arrangement had been made with the Chickasaw, in 1783, by
which they surrendered to the Cumberland settlement their own claim
to the lands from the Cumberland river south to the dividing ridge of
Duck river. 3 It was not, however, until the treaty of