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a confession made to him by George Tuke, was said afterward, to have been hired for fifty dollars by a Brother of the murdered Bowman to tell the lie.

      There seems to have been some family feud between the Tukes & the Bowmans. The father of Bowman came into the country as a Blacksmith. His family was large and all seeking settlements. One of the sons had intruded on a kinsman of Tuke. Violence was resorted to by the intruder word scratched out in the hope of ejecting the Indian. Hence, of course, much ill will was necessarily engendered between all the Indians & the whole family Intruders.
      George Tuke had escaped once or twice after his first arrest. He roamed the country fearlessly. Nailor, one of the Georgia guard, had received indirect information by some frequenter of a tavern he kept that Tuke was in his neighborhood. He gathered three or four word scratched out assistants, and they went, armed, in pursuit of him. They tracked him to a place where they were told he was carousing. They found Indians, but no George Tuke. They told the Indians they had authority