- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Oral presentation] 1781[?], [to the] Headmen and Warriors of the Creek Nation
- Creator:
- Georgia. Governor (1781-1782 : Brownson)
- Date of Original:
- 1781
- Subject:
- Creek Indians--Government relations
Georgia--Politics and government--1775-1865 - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- speeches
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- Talk dated 1781 (?) from Georgia Governor Nathan Brownson (1781-1782) and the council of Georgia to the headmen and warriors of the Creek Nation. Brownson says he desires friendship between the Americans and the Creeks, but believes that this is not possible until the Creeks rid themselves of Brown's (Thomas Brown, British agent ?) followers who have been unfriendly to the Georgians. Trade and supplies are promised from the Americans and Spaniards if the Creeks subdue the faction sympathetic to the British.
Digital image of original manuscript, scanned by the University of Georgia Libraries in 2000, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- tcc268
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc268
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc268#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc268/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Telamon Cuyler, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 3 pages/leaves
- Original Collection:
- Manuscript held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, Telamon Cuyler, box 38F, folder Brownson 6, document 01.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-
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To the Head Men of the Creek Nation, The Talk of Nathan Brownson Governor & the Council of Georgia
Friends & Brothers
Your Talk in answer to our talk, we have received by our two old friends
You say, you want to live in peace & quietness with us, and to keep the chain of friendship bright, between you and us. We wish the same, and that the friendship may be clear and warm like the sun, and that it may last as long as the sun shall shine
But we fear while you keep among you [unclear text: Browns ] lying people, who thirst for our blood, which they dare not attempt to take themselves; nor to look us in the face, but wish by a few goods to hire you to spill your own blood in attempting to feed them with ours, while they hide themselves behind your wives & children. I say I fear they will one day instigate your young mad people to spoil the path between us, which it is our wish to keep open & clear
You say you are poor, as well as we, it is war that has made us poor, war has taught us to leave our warm Houses, & to take shelter under the trees and to Change our sumtuous [sumptuous] tables, for scanty [added text: coarse ] meals and our feather beds for the Ground, but this poverty has made us all wariors [warriors] & learned us to beat the English where in we find them
You say you suffer, you see we suffer much more, but this we bear patiently, like men & warriors looking foreward [forward] to see our Country & our Wives & Children
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free and happy, and rich as our brothers to the Northward are already. If you are sincerely our friends, you will share our poverty, with us, and when we are rich (which we hope will soon be) you shall share our riches also
Our Great Warrior Genl. [General] Washington, the last moon made prisoners of Lord Cornwallis the English head warrior, & killed and took his whole army (in all about eight thousand men) this has finished the war in Virginia -- and he is now coming with his army to help us to finish the war here
That you may know this we have shown our great wariors [warriors] talk to us on that head, to our two Brothers, who came down with, our two old friends
We have sent our talk to you & your answer to us to Great Council fire at Philadelphia, and have desired them to appoint some Beloved man to hold a treaty with your Head men and to furnish you with goods from the Northward, till we can drive the English from Charlestown & Savannah, when we shall be able to [unclear text: spupply [Supply] ] you fully
You desire us to write to our friends the [deleted text: [illegible text] ] Spanyards who you say, you know has Amunition [Ammunition] to supply you. we know they have, and believe the reason they do not supply you, is you Keeping [unclear text: Brown ] lying people among you, if you deliver them up, we do not doubt but they will supply you, and if you do not, it will not do any good for us to write to them
[Signed] N [Nathan] Brownson
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Talk to Head Men of the Creek Nation by Nathan [unclear text: Brunson ] Esqr. [Esquire]
1782
1781
Indian
To The Head Men & Warriors of the Creek Nation