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PG-P.753.107
30 Aug 1753:11,12,13 (1288)
[Report on conference between James Glen, Governor of South-
Carolina, and Malatchi and other headmen of the Creek
Indians, held the 31st of May. In middle of third column,
the Governor discusses the incident in which an Indian
killed a white pack-horse man. The agreement was that the
Indians would execute the offender:] I had at the same time
written to several of the other towns, insisting that they
would take care that the satisfaction demanded was given,
and the Head-men finding that the town declined giving it,
sent them word, that if they did not immediately comply,
they would come against their town, and kill men, women, and
children, and reduce their town to ashes; upon which they
came to a resolution to put him to death, and they ordered
one of his own relations to do it, and the place fixed for
that purpose was the Town-house, when he came to see the
dancing, as they commonly do every night, and for that end
his relation had provided himself with a pistol, which he
kept concealed under his blanket, but by his motion in
dancing the bullet had dropt out, however he wounded him
slightly with the wadding and powder; he, conscious of the
crime he had committed, and finding that his life was aimed
at for satisfaction to the English, immediately fled into
the woods, and hid himself in a hollow tree, but the whole
town having gone in pursuit of him, found him . . . [6
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