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Show 40 MYTHS OF THE CHEROKEE [ ETH. ANN. 19 He adds that only dire necessity had induced them to make peace with the English in 1761. * In accordance with the treaty stipulations Fort Prince George was built in 1756 adjoining the important Cherokee town of Keowee, on the headwaters of the Savannah, and Fort Loudon near the junction of Tellico river with the Little Tennessee, in the center of the Cherokee towns beyond the mountains. 5 By special arrangement with the influential chief, Ata- kullakulla ( Ata'- guT'kalu'), 8 Fort Dobbs was also built in the same year about 20 miles west of the present Salisbury, North Carolina.* The Cherokee had agreed to furnish four hundred warriors to cooperate against the French in the north, but before Fort Loudon had been completed it was very evident that they had repented of their promise, as their great council at Echota ordered the work stopped and the garrison on the way to turn back, plainly telling the officer in charge that they did not want so many white people among them. Ata- kullakulla, hitherto supposed to be one of the stanchest friends of the English, was now one of the most determined in the opposition. It was in evidence also that they were in constant communication with the French. By much tact and argument their objections were at last overcome for a time, and they very unwillingly set about raising the promised force of warriors. Major Andrew Lewis, who superintended the building of the fort, became convinced that the Cherokee were really friendly to the French, and that all their professions of friendship and assistance were " only to put a gloss on their knavery." The fort was finally completed, and, on his suggestion, was garrisoned with a strong force of two hundred men under Captain Demer6.5 There was strong ground for believing that some depredations committed about this time on the heads of Catawba and Broad rivers, in North Carolina, were the joint work of Cherokee and northern Indians. 6 Notwithstanding all this, a considerable body of Cherokee joined the British forces on the Virginia frontier. 7 Fort Du Quesne was taken by the American provincials under Washington, November 25, 1758. Quebec was taken September 13, 1759, and by the final treaty of peace in 1763 the war ended with the transfer of Canada and the Ohio valley to the crown of England. Louisiana had already been ceded by France to Spain. Although France was thus eliminated from the Indian problem, the 1 Ttmberlake, Henry, Memoirs, pp. 73, 74; London, 1765. 2 Ramsey, Tennessee, p. 51, 1853; Royce, Cherokee Nation, in Fifth Ann. Rept. Bur. of Ethnology, p. 145, 1888. 3 For notice see Ata'- gul" kahV, in the glossary. 4 Ramsey, op. eit., p. 50. 6 Letters of Major Andrew Lewis and Governor Dinwiddle, 1756. in North Carolina Colonial Records V, pp. 585, 612- 614, 635, 637, 1887; Ramsey, op. cit., pp. 51, 52. • Letter of Governor Dobbs, 1756. in North Carolina Colonial Records, v, p. 604, 1887. 7 Dinwiddle letter, 1757, ibid., p. 765. |
