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113 1759 "The principal cause of this war" (which commenced in 1759) was, the taking of some horses by the Indians, which belonged to the Virginia settlers; to replace those which the Indians had lost during the preceding war with the French, whilst acting as our allies. The white settlers reseized their horses, and either killed or made prisoners of many who were unconscious of having committed any offence. The impolicy of this step soon became manifest, for an Indian war with all its horrors, was the immediate consequence." Tenn: Gaz: Doherty the first White settler who came in 1690 & died 1788 "taught the Indians to steal horses from Virginia, which were the first horses the Cherokees ever had." Haywood Nat & Ab: Hist: 234

  "Small incidents sometimes show the genuine character of a people, more clearly than it can be perceived through any other medium.  When in the last mentioned war (1758 or 1759 according to Haywood) the Cherokees had pushed their inroads almost to Salisbury in North Carolina, in various dispersed detachments, destined to fall upon the frontiers at different points, as nearly as possible at the same moment of time, one of those parties consisting of six or eight men were discovered, watched, and pursued till they entered into a