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MG-A(G.759.036
20 Sep 1759:33,41 (750)
Charles-town, in South-Carolina, August 18. Some weeks ago
a party of Creek Indians came to Keowee in the lower
Cherokee Country, where we have Fort Prince-George, headed
by a fellow of no great note, but intirely devoted to the
French interest, called the Young-Twin, and accompanied by
two Shawanese: None seemed to know the business they came
upon; they pretended only a visit or a ramble; yet it was
observed that the Young-Twin held frequent private
conferences in the woods with the Cherokees: On the 3d
instant, this party, with a number of Cherokees, set out for
the Creek nation. Nothing yet transpired of the Young-
Twin's errand, till the 4th, when a very fortunate accident
revealed a dangerous conspiracy, entered into by some of
both nations (how many it does not yet appear) to break out
a war with the English; to begin it by a general massacre of
our traders at their great Busk, or Green-Corn Dance, on the
24th instant, and to follow it, by immediately falling on
all our poor back-settlers. . .
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