Patrolling the Border: Theft and Violence on the Creek-Georgia Frontier, 1770–1796

311 Pages·2018·25.663 MB·English

by  Joshua S. Haynes

Patrolling the Border
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Patrolling the Border
Theft and Violence on the
Creek- Georgia Frontier, 1770– 1796
joshua s. haynes
The University of Georgia Press
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© 2018 by the University of Georgia Press
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2017042882
ISBN: 9780820353166 (hardcover: alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780820353173 (ebook).
For Janice and Terry
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Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1 “The Whole Nation in Common”: Native Rights
and Border Defense, 1770– 1773 17
2 “Neither the Abicas, Tallapuses, nor Alibamas
Desire to Have Any Thing to Say to the Cowetas
but Desire Peace”: The White- Sherrill Affair
and the Rise of Border Patrols, 1774– 1775 45
3 “Settle the Matter Yourselves”: The American Revolution
in Creek Country, 1775– 1783 63
4 “We Mean to Have the Consent of Every Headman
in the Whole Nation”: Treaties, Resistance,
and Internal Creek Political Conflict, 1783– 1785 84
5 “Always in Defense of Our Rights”: The Creek Threat,
Real and Imagined, 1786 105
6 “An Uncommon Degree of Ferocity”: Border Patrols
and the Oconee War, 1787– 1790 130
7 “The Indians Still Desputed Giving up Their Rights
to That Land”: Renewed Border Patrols, 1790– 1793 155