Note 169 — AN ACCOUNT OF THE KATAHBA, CHEERAKE, MUSKOHGE, CHOKTAH, AND CHIKKASAH NATIONS: (continued 3)
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The reference is to Col. Abraham Wood, of Virginia, and to his sending out Batts and Fallam in 1671—not 1654 or 1664. Adair is here following Cox’s Carolana. See Alvord and Bidgood, First Explorations of the Trans-Allegheny Region, 191, and Williams, Early Travels in the Tennessee Country, 17. Capt. Bolton made no such discovery in 1670.