of a man named Casteel on the French Broad about nine
miles above Knoxville and massacred father, mother, and four children
in most brutal fashion. One child only was left alive, a girl of ten
years, who was found scalped and bleeding from six tomahawk gashes,
vet survived. The others were buried in one grave. The massacre
roused such a storm of excitement that it required all the effort
of the governor and the local officials to prevent an invasion in force
of the Indian country. Tt was learned that Doublehead. of the Chicka-
mauga towns, was trying to get the support of the valley towns, which,
however, continued to maintain an attitude of peace. The friendly
Cherokee also declared that the Spaniards were constantly instigating
the lower tow ns to hostilities, although John Watts, one of their prin-
cipalchiefs, advocated peace. '
In June a boat under command of William Scott, laden with pot-,
hardware, and other property, and containing six white men. three
women, four children, and twenty negroes, left Knoxville to descend
I Ramsey. Tennessee, pp. 590. 602-605. 1853.
i Haywood, civil and Political Historj of Tennessee, pp 800-802; Knoxville, 1828
ii, mi pp 308-308,1828; Ramsey, op. cit., pp. 591 594. Haywood's history of this period Is little more
than a continuous record of killings and petty encounters.
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Tennessee river to Natchez. As it passed the Chickamauga towns it
was fired upon from Running Water and Long island without damage
The whites returned the tire, wounding two Indians. A large party of
Cherokee, headed by White-man-killer (Une'ga-dihi"). then started in
pursuit of the boat, which they overtook at Muscle shoals,