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16 the french and their allies, with a promise to protect their people at home from the incursions/encursing of the Northern Tribes, by establishing garression/garreions in the frontier of the nation and supply[ing] them with the munitions of/mumession war, to which the nation readily agreed to the proposal against the enemies of both, and which the nation ought to have [a]voided, little thinking that they were preparing a way to bring on their people greater distress from the imprudence to be committed by their own people, than by the depredation of their red enemies; and on the other side the English as little thought of that they were dooming their soldiers to be massacred/massecried by their own allies, than/then the common enemy they were about to engage/enguage; and according to the promises made, a garrison was established at Tuskegee called Fort Loudon, on the bank of the little Tenessee river and cannons was packed on horses from Keowee fort over the Unicoy mountain to Fort Loudon. According to the arrangement made with the nation the warriors turned out to join the army of their friends, and went to Pennsylvania, and others no further than Virginia. and was gone for a season, before they began to return home, and very little account is given what duties they performed during their absence; it is probable they were kept ranging on the frontiers of those states already mentioned, and the nearest station next to this nation, which was then occupied by the whites, was on Roanke, called by the Cherokee bird's fort; and it is represented that it was not very long after the first warring parties return home, when others turned out to war against their common enemy, and directed their courses from whence their countrymen had been to, and as the warring parties [were] leaving their/there respective parts of the nation at different times and went in several parties through the white settlements to the place of their destination, on of such a party had committed murder on a white man after having reached the white settlements, in order to decieve their friends by representing to them of having killed an enemy of the Northern Indians from which they expected to be handsome rewarded for this treacherous act - and when the party arrived at the place of rendezvous/randvouze there can be no doubt but the[y] exhibited/exhabited considerable parade/perade with the trophys of the scalp - but the[y] were suspected of