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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Report from Richmond, VA, on a June congress at Pensacola where a Chickasaw chief explained his nation's continued attachment to the English despite land losses, citing deception in a treaty signing involving an old woman tricked by Americans.
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At a talk at a Congress, held in June last at Pensacola, by the chiefs of the Chickesaw and the Creek Indians, with the governour and intendant-general of Louisiana, it was asked of one of the Chickesaw Chiefs, "what made his nation so very much attached to the English, after being treated so ill by them, in giving away so much of their lands?" He answered that "at first he was much hurt; but he had since been well informed, that an old woman who was employed by the English Mico (King) to make peace, and suffered herself to be blinded by two cunning Americans, who blew tobacco ashes and rice-chaff in her eyes, so that she could not read what he put her name to; that such a bargain was of no effect, and that he did not consider his nation in any wise bound by it."
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Pensacola
Event Date
June Last
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the chief stated the treaty bargain was invalid due to deception and his nation not bound by it.
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At a congress in Pensacola, a Chickasaw chief was asked why his nation remained attached to the English after land losses. He explained initial hurt but learned of an old woman, employed by the English Mico to make peace, deceived by two Americans who blinded her with tobacco ashes and rice-chaff, preventing her from reading the document she signed.