[159]. The records abound in proofs of the awe in which the Chickasaws were held by the other tribes of the Southern and Northern Indians.
[160]. Described by Lord Adam Gordon in 1764, Wolf King was a sensible old man, who said he might be one hundred years old. Mereness, Travels in the American Colonies, 385.
[161]. The Shawnees were hereditary enemies of the Cherokees, but usually allies of the Creeks. By capture or intermarriage there was quite an admixture of Shawnee blood among the Cherokees. The small party referred to in the text may have been one of this character.
[162]. The reference seems to be to Gov. James Glen, who made such an effort.
[163]. Lachlan McGillivray. The archives at Columbia bear out Adair’s statements on this point.
[164]. Bienville gave their number of warriors in 1725-26 as 8,000 and the Colonial Records of Georgia state a higher number. There had been a frightful loss of life in the numerous wars fought with the Chickasaws under French incitement. In wars with the Creeks, 1765-1771, they lost about three hundred warriors, Gallatin, Synopsis, etc., 100. Cushman draws a brighter picture of the Choctaws, but Milfort makes a distinction between the Northern and Southern Choctaws, giving to the former superior qualities. The earliest mention of them is found in the De Soto narratives, 1540.
[165]. The reference is to the firms of Baynton, Wharton & Morgan, and Franks & Co.
[166]. George Johnstone.
[167]. Adair was not well up on North Carolina geography. The Yadkin does not flow into the Cape Fear River.
[168]. Charles Stuart, seemingly a brother of John Stuart, was deputy superintendent.