[185]. Perhaps Joseph Wood, of Georgia.
[186]. James Campbell who had traded among the Chickasaws for nearly twenty years. He had conducted a small trade among the Choctaws, and joined Adair in the plan to win over Red Shoes.
[187]. “Friday last arrived 47 Indians of a very potent nation heretofore in enmity and now come to solicit peace and the encouragement of English traders to settle and supply them with goods, giving assurances of fidelity and good treatment.” South Carolina Gazette, Apr. 13, 1748. A brother of Red Shoes headed the delegation. Ib., Apr. 17.
[188]. The mythic place, Nani Waya (winding hill), in Winston County, Miss. Nanna Waya Creek through the county yet is known by the name. Gatschet, Migration Legend, 105; Cushman, History, 361.
[189]. The French archives, with data of the year 1748, afford ample corroboration of “the Choctaw rebellion,” as they termed the civil war.
[190]. Or Paya Mattaha; he represented the Chickasaw Nation as principal leader in the Indian Congress held by Gov. Johnstone and John Stuart, at Mobile in March, 1765. He there made an extended speech: “Tho’ I am a red man, my heart is white from my connection with and the benefit I have received from the white people. I almost look upon myself as one of them.... The English have always supported me in my distress and never deserted or deceived me.”
[191]. Gov. Glen in 1748 admitted that Adair and John Campbell had been his chief agents in bringing about the Red Shoe revolt. Adair’s bitterness towards the governor was not without cause.
[192]. Identified by Swanton as the Cusabo Indians. Early Hist. Creeks, 71 et seq.
[193]. Adair is here recounting Cherokee raids in the early decades of the eighteenth century.
[194]. George Haig who in 1748 was taken captive, with Thomas Brown’s half-breed son, and put to death by the Indians (R. L. Meriwether). Thomas Brown is mentioned by Adair as “T. B.” He and Haig were associates in the Indian trade from a post on Congaree River up to Brown’s death in 1747.