where they
killed all the white people in it. made prisoners of the negroes, an. I
plundered the goods. Three Indians were killed and one was wounded
in the action. 1 It is said that the Indian actors in this massacre tied
across the Mississippi into Spanish territory and became the nucleus of
the Cherokee Nation of the West, as will be noted elsewhere.
On June 26, 1794, another treaty, intended to be supplementary to
that of Holston in 1791, was negotiated at Philadelphia, being signed
by the Secretary of War and by thirteen principal men of the Chero-
kee. An arrangement was made for the proper marking of the
boundary then established, and the annuity was increased to five
thousand dollars, with a proviso that fifty dollars were to be deducted
for every horse -tolen by the Cherokee andnot restored within three
months. 2
In July a man named John Ish was shot down while plowing in his
field eighteen miles below Knoxville. By order of Hanging-maw, the
friendly chief of Echota, a party of Cherokee took the trail and cap-
tured the murderer, who proved to be a Creek, whom they brought
in to the agent at Tellico blockhouse, where he was formally tried
and hanged. When asked the usual question he said that his people
were at war with the whites, that he had left home to kill or be killed.
that he had killed the white man and would have escaped but for the
Cherokee, and that there were enough of his nation to avenge his
death. A few days later a party of one hundred Creek warriors
crossed Tennessee river against the settlements. The