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MG-A(G.761.002
8 Jan 1761:13 (818)
Charles-Town (South-Carolina) November 22. On Saturday
last an express arrived, with the dispatches to his Honour,
from Captain Benjamin Gordon, of the Royal Scots, Commanding
Officer at Congarees, and Ensign Miln of the Independants,
Commandant of Fort Prince-George, Keowee.
Fort Prince-George, November 5, 1760. The following
particulars appearing to me of such general and weighty
concern, I have forwarded the same to Charles-Town with all
possible dispatch. --On the 1st instant John Welsh came in
here from the middle settlements, and informed me "that
Louis Lantinac, a Frenchman born, who was a cadet in Captain
Nelson's Independent Company, thereafter a trader from
Carolina among the Cherokees, and now a French Officer,
arrived very lately at Chote, with presents from the French
to these Indians. He immediately sent down for Salloue, or
the Young Warrior of Estatoe, who obeyed the summons, and
delivered to him two letters, which were in his, Salloue's
hands, written by me to Judd's friend and Oucannostota.
Latinac being master of both the English and Cherokee
tongues, interpreted those letters as best suited his own
interest; and having presented Salloue with a box of paint,
which was accepted, he pulled out a bloody hatchet, drove it
into a log, and cried out, 'Where is the Man that will take
that up for the French?' Salloue immediately seized the
hatchet, saying, 'I am not tired of war yet, I will give
them, the English, more of it,' and danced the War Dance;
after which all the others took up the hatchet, and declared
in favour of the French. . .
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