it and shot Mcintosh and another chief
mooneyJ WILLIAM WEATHERFORD — MISSIONARIES 217
us thej tried to escape. I [e left three wives, one of wl i was a t Iherokee. 1 uthori-
ties: Drake, [ndians, ed. L880; Letters from Mcintosh's son and widows, 1825, in
American State Papers: [ndian Affairs, n, pp. 764 and 768.
(36 \Vuii\m Weatherford p.89): This leader of the hostiles in the Creek
war was the son of a white father and a halfbreed woman of Tuskegee town whose
father had been a Scotchman. VVeatherford was born in the Creek Nation about
L780and died on Little river, in Monroe county, Alabama, in 1826. He caine first
into prominence by leading the attack upon Fort Minis, August 30, 1813, which
resulted in the destruction of the fori and the massacre of over five hundredinmates.
It is maintained, with apparent truth, that he <li'l his best to prevent the excesses
which followed tin- victory, and left the scene rather than witness the atrocities
when he found that he could not restrain his followers. The fact that Jackson
allowed him to go home unmolested after the final surrender is evidence that he
believed Weatherford guiltless. At the battle of the Holy Ground, in the following
December, he was defeated and narrow l\ escaped capture by the troops under i ten-
eral Claiborne. When the last hope of the Creeks had been destroyed and their
power of resistance broken by the bloody battle of the Horseshoe bend, March 27,
1814, Weatherford voluntarily walked into General Jackson's headquarters and sur-
rendered, creating such an impression by his straightforward and fearless manner
that the general, after a