the Cherokee in 1760, he was second in
command, and his rescue by Ata-kullakulla is one of the romantic episodes of that
period. In 1763 he was appointed superintendent for the southern tribes, a position
which he continued to hold until his death. In 1768 he negotiated with the Chero-
kee the treaty of Hard Labor by which the Kanawha was lixed as the western
boundary of Virginia, Sir William Johnson at the same time concluding a treaty with
the northern tribes by which the boundary was continued northward along the Ohio.
At the outbreak of the Revolution he organized the Cherokeeand other southern
trilies, with the white loyalists, against the Americans, and was largely responsible
I'orthe Lndian outrages along the southern border. He planned a general invasion
by the southern trilies along the whole frontier, in iDeration with a British force
to be landed in western Florida, while a British licet should occupy the attention of
the American- on the coast side and the T< iries should rise in the interior. I In the
discovery of the plot and the subsequent defeat of the Cherokee by the Americans.
he tied to Florida and soon afterward sailed for England, where he die. 1 in 1770.
(14) Nancy Ward (p. 47): A noted halfbreed Cherokee woman, the date and
place of whose birth and death are alike unknown. It is said that her father was a
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British officer named Ward and her mother a sister of Ata-kullakulla, principal
chief of the Nation at the time of the first Cherokee war. She was probably related
to Brian Ward, an