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and made kind of forts round their town house which enabled them to repulse the attacks of their enemies; and those towns also in the vallies were exposed to the invading foe about little Highwassie Ah, quo, hee and Flau, noos, see towns, tho' not so frequent by large bodies, as the Creeks towns were further oft than those from Tovgelaw,-but the Creeks were generally defeated whenever they made their attacks on those valley towns, as they were more numerous and the towns lay more compact, altho' the Cherokees, then were less numerous, owing to the devastation of the Small pox, yet were not wanting in courage to retaliate on their enemies, which they done by making inroads into the Creek Nation, by small parties from those towns lying on little Tenessee, and no doubt headed by their ruling chiefs Occun, nosto, toe and Attah te cul kel-lah and other leading warriors who are represented to have acted bravely in these wars; and the Creeks had also in their turn to remove their towwn from the Abbe-coo-ches, further down the Coosa from the frequent incursions/incurring of the Cherokees. And it is also represented that the Coewetas town or Cussettas was visited by the Cherokees and some prisoners had been taken by them and brought into this nation; and both parties had their full share of displaying their bravery in this war and at times half peace was made, but when the hunting season came about, whole hunting camps of the Cherokees were frequently killed by the Creeks, until two warring parties happened to meet and made the preliminary for peace between the two nations on the banks of the Oconee/Occunna river, which was brought about in the following manner, - that a party of Cherokees had started from Tovgelaw to war against the Cowetas and in the company there was a Creek man whose name was The Pidgeon and had been either taken as a prisoner or had came in this nation in time of peace, when quite a youth, who became attached to the nation by marriage (named Pidgeon) and the Cherokees had arrived within/in a short distance/distant of