The New Hampshire Gazette

Our advices from South Carolina are, that Colonel Grant arrived at Keowhee the 27th of May: The number of regulars amounted to 1400 men; the provincials to 686; the rangers to 401; waggoners to 240; indians to 57; and negroes to 41; the whole making upwards of 2820 men; before they decamped from Ninety Six major Rogers's rangers, and all the Chickasaws, Mohawks and Catawbas then in the camp, were formed into one corps, joined by lieut. Watters with 10 volunteers from the 17th regiment, and ensign Connor with 20 more from the provincials, and the whole of them put under the command of Capt. Quintin Kennedy, not only an active brave officer, but who is particularly well acquainted with the dispositions of Indians and their method of making War.

That nothing can equal the harmony subsisting between the regulars and provincials, who are both well provided with all necessaries and healthy. It is thought Col. Grant will make a very short halt at Kehowee, and proceed to the Middle settlements, where the body of the nation will meet him unarmed; by which means a peace will be concluded without bloodshed. The distress these Indians are already in, and the season for planting being come, when the army arrives there, makes these conjectures reasonable.

As to the Creeks the lower nation are in such distress for want of provisions that a blanket of truck has been given for nine ears of corn, so that were they even inclined they cannot give protection to the faithless Cherokees.