result ai the Long island. A Mrs. Bean
and a boy named Moore were captured on this occasion and carried to
one of the Cherokee towns in the neighborhood of Tellico, where the
boj was burned, hut tin' woman, after she had been condemned to
death and everything was in readiness for the tragedy, was rescued by
the interpositi f Nancy Ward. Two other Cherokee detachments
moved against the upper settlements at the same time. One of these.
finding all the inhabitants securely shut up in forts, returned without
doing much damage. The other ravaged the country on Clinch river
almost to its head, and killed a man and wounded other- at Black's
station, now Abingdon, Virginia. 1
At the same time that one pari of the Cherokee were raiding the
Tennessee settlements others came down upon the frontiers ofCaro-
lina and Georgia. On the upper Catawba they killed many people, hut
the whites took refuge in the stockade stations, where they defended
themselves until General Rutherford (hi) came to their relief. In
Georgia an attempt had been made by a small party of Americans to
seize Cameron, who lived in one of the Cherokee towns with his Indian
\\ ife. hut. as was to have been expected, the Indians interfered, killing
several of the party and capturing others, who were afterward tortured
lo death. The Cherokee of the Upper and Mid. lie town-, with some
Creeks and Tories of the vicinity, led by Cameron himself, at once
began ravaging the South Carolina border, burning houses, driving off
cattle, and killing men, women, and children without distinction, until
the whole country was in a wild panic, tin 1 people