Today in Chickamauga History - July 22
1754, July 22: CRSC - PAGES 15 – 20 –
LUDOVIC GRANT TO GOVERNOR GLEN
Cherrokees, Tomalty Town, 22d July, 1754
Your Excellency may remember in the last Letters by Mr. Buttler, I gave an Account of a Message sent to Old Hopp by the Governor of Virginia inviting the Emperour and Little Carpenter in thither, in order to receive some Presents as the Letter specified, sent for them from the King of England. Abraham Smit h who was the Messenger went in Person over the Hills, and as I can learn received one verbal Comp1iment for another to carry Home with him. However Smith returned with expedition Erom Virginia to Kewohee the second Time and proceeded no further, but from thence sent the second Letter which he had brought by one of the Virginia Traders who was there at Kewohee at that Time to Old Hopp who said he was much obliged to the .Governor of Virginia for his Correspondence, but that as he was promised by his first Messenger, Ammunition and war Utensils, and that not being not according to Promise, neither he nor his People could make Powder, and Bullets, and other Things they wanted, and Paper alone, meaning the Letters, would not defend them from their Enemies either at Home or abroad and upon slight Excuses altogether decline going.
“There have been but few ·killed in any of the Middle settlements and the Lower Towns that I can hear of.”