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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Extract from a letter dated August 16, 178? from Lexington, Kentucky, reports intelligence of Creek, Chickamauga, and other tribes declaring war on Cumberland River settlements after a council at Mobile. M'Gillivray ordered killings in Chickasaw Nation, resulting in deaths of Captain Davenport and others, and near-total destruction of Chickasaw Bluff settlement. Col. Robinson urgently requests reinforcements amid expected large-scale Indian invasion near Nashville; later reports claim 40 families destroyed and a militia defeat.
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Extract of a Letter from Lexington, (Kentucke) August 16.
"A few days ago, Col. Benjamin Logan, received an express from Col. James Robinson, Commanding Officer of the Settlements on Cumberland, (N. Carolina,) containing the following intelligence:
"That he was informed by express, from the Chief of the Chickasaw Nation, and also by some Indians who had escaped from the country, that the Creek, Chickamauga, and some other tribes of Indians, had, in a grand council held at Mobile, declared war against the settlement on Cumberland river, and were to invade that country in the course of the present month, with all the force they could raise. That in consequence of this determination, M'Gillivray, superintendent of the Creek Nation, had sent a party of the Creeks to the Chickasaw Nation, with orders to kill Mr. Turnbull, Captain Davenport, and every other white man they could find in the country. Turnbull having information by an Indian of their design made his escape, but Davenport, and four more men, were killed in the Chickasaw town, and the whole settlement at the Chickasaw Bluff were cut off, except three. The Chickasaws, (though mortal enemies to the Creeks) were unable to protect these people from their cruelty, being destitute of ammunition, but assured Col. Robinson, that as soon as they received a supply from Cumberland or Kentucke, they will declare open war against that nation. Col. Robinson wrote in the most pressing manner for assistance from this country, urging, that unless immediately reinforced, that whole country was in imminent danger of falling a sacrifice to the superior force of the enemy, an attack from whom they daily expected, as the signs of large parties had been discovered within a few miles of Nashville,
"We have received intelligence, which there is every reason to believe authentic, that two days after the express left that country, they expected the attack was made; that the Indians had destroyed 40 families in one day, and had defeated a party of men that had given them battle, of which few escaped; that upwards of 100 Indians were seen cutting down corn in one plantation."
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Cumberland, (N. Carolina)
Event Date
August 16
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davenport and four more men killed; whole settlement at chickasaw bluff cut off except three; 40 families destroyed; party of men defeated with few escaped
Event Details
Col. James Robinson informed by Chickasaw Chief and escaped Indians of Creek, Chickamauga, and other tribes declaring war at Mobile council and planning invasion of Cumberland settlements this month. M'Gillivray sent Creeks to kill whites in Chickasaw Nation; Turnbull escaped, but Davenport and four others killed, settlement nearly wiped out. Chickasaws unable to protect due to lack of ammunition but plan to declare war once supplied. Robinson urgently requests reinforcements as attack expected near Nashville. Later intelligence: attack made, 40 families destroyed, militia defeated, 100 Indians seen destroying crops.