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19 resistance was made by the soldiers; and numbers was killed and taken prisoners, and Captain McDarnery fell with his soldiers, but the life of Capt. Stuart was preserved by a woman who ran in among the soldiers during the firing and upon this circumstance it is represented that it had been determined to preserve the life of Stuart, whose friendly disposition had gained the friendship of the members of the secret council, but in respect of Captain McDarnery, the Cherokees disliked him who was proud, haughty & despotic disposition; and these transactions took place between the years of 1756 or 58, and in consequence of these tragedys, an army of the British Soldiers invaded a part of the nation about Keowee and Cowie? towns not without some resistance of the Cherokees, who had elected a small body of the warriors from those towns lying on in the neighborhood Cowie and met the British army & their auxilliary, the Chickasaws on the war woman's Creek, and there had a battle with the army, and the Cherokees had taken possession of the greater part of the provision and baggage horses and driving them off during the engagement, but unfortunately were retaken by the Chickasaws and whites, and the second battle that was fought was near the head of the little Tennessee River, at a place called Coo, woo, eh and the third was at Ester toyeh still lower down on the same river with the same bad success as the first, yet there was considerable numbers of both killed & wounded of the enemy, that the army did not proceed further than Cowie, and burnt that & the adjacent towns & provisions, which produced great scarcity of corn in that section of the settlement, and in about two years after, peace was reestablished with the British Americans; still however, the Cherokee Nation was not in state of peace with the Northern Indians, though their incursions/incursing were but at intervals/entervails, and four or five years after the peace with the British, Occunnostotoe & some of his warriors went on as ambassadors of peace to the State of New York, to the Superintendant under the British Government to the Northern No.1