Note 131 — AN ACCOUNT OF THE KATAHBA, CHEERAKE, MUSKOHGE, CHOKTAH, AND CHIKKASAH NATIONS:

Gov. Dinwiddie: “We have had 148 Cherokees, 124 Catawbas etc. at Fort Loudown [Winchester, Va.].... The Cherokees have been guilty of many disorders in marching through this Country and killed a Chickasaw Warrior.” Papers, II, 633, 641, 663, 673. Cherokees were used with good results as scouts; a party of six reported a sally of the French from Fort DuQuesne (Pittsburgh) and Col. George Washington (June, 1757) feared that Fort Cumberland would fall. Fernow, Ohio Valley in Colonial Days, 150 et seq. The Chickasaws also sent warriors to aid the British and Americans. They at Ft. Loudoun (in Virginia) were under Washington, who wrote of them: “Those Indians who are coming should be showed all possible respect, and the greatest care should be taken of them, as upon them much depends. It is a critical time, they are very humorsome, and their assistance very necessary. One false step might lose us all that, but even turn them against us.” Morton, Story of Winchester, 76.