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A certain Cherokee, deaf and dumb, was some distance from the house, when he observed a company of soldiers advancing. He was doubtless alarmed and attempted to make his escape. The soldiers ordered him to stop, and because he did not obey their command, shot him dead on the spot. One man, it is said, had killed a deer, and was taking it home to meet the joyful salutations of his family, when, at once, he was surprised, and taken prisoner to a fort. Women absent from their families on visits, or for other causes, and men far from their wives and children, were not allowed to return; and also children being found from home were dragged off among strangers. Cattle, horses, hogs, and household furniture, as well as clothing, bedding were, I believe generally lost to the owners. Though men were appointed to take care of property left by the prisoners, yet in general this business was so conducted as to afford the Indians but little benefit. The white inhabitants, it is said, stood with open arms to seize whatever property they could put their hands on. Some few Cherokees who had friends to speak for them, were assisted in getting afterwards some part of their lost goods & property. But in general, the Cherokee citizens in the limits of Georgia about eight thousand in number, many of whom were in good circumstances, and some rich, were, in three or four days, rendered homeless, houseless, and almost penniless, and unclear to all the ills of captivity.

In driving them, a platoon of men with loaded muskets, walked before and behind and a file of soldiers on each side armed with the same appaling instruments of death. The soldiers, it is said would often