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two towns had escaped from this epidemic destroyer; and about this time, or not long before the above war as already related, [it was] that Cornelius Doherty had come in the valley Town - the first european trader - who is represented to have been the first white trader that introduced goods amongst the Cherokees; and [it] is said he was thirty years of age at the time, and died in 1779 on The, wo, hee river at Sen, ne, kauh, Old Town; and that he was one hundred and eleven years old at his death, and had lived in this nation eighty one years, and his descendant, Jenny Doherty, now living, is in her eighty one year of her age and at her father's death, her age must have been about forty years; but he had other children by another woman, which must have been much older than Jenny Doherty - say twelve years older - which will make it 140 years since C. Doherty came in among the Cherokees; and add the first introduction of a gun fifteen years, which Jenny Doherty's Grand Mother had represented when she was quite small, which will make from the first introduction of fire arms, and the first trader, 155 years, up to the present period; and this account is, perhaps, as nearly correct as the tradition admits of.

It is represented by tradition that not long after the peace that had been made between this nation & the Creeks, that the Natchez Natchee tribe of Indians had fled from the Natchee town on the Mississippi into this nation for refuge from the destroying enemy, the Spaniards, who had surrounded their fortified place of defence from the invading foe: and the Cherokees were disposed to treat them as enemies - C Doherty interfered in the behalf of the Natchees: as the influence the first traders had over the Cherokees was very considerable, who represented to them the cruelty of such conduct to a people who had done them no harm, but had fled to them for protection; & advised the nation to adopt the Natchees as a part of their nation, altho' they were but few in numbers, yet they would add strength to their nation - and accordingly the Natchees settled at Ae, quo, hay, or Ah, quo, hee and remained there till