8/12/1756
The Pennsylvania Gazette
Newbern, June 28.
We hear from Roan County, That a small Party of the Cherokee Indians have lately come there, and committed Depredations on the Inhabitants.; they carried away several Horses, and other Things of Value, but were pursued by a Party of the Neighbours, who came up with them, and on demanding the Goods, they set up the War whoop, flew to Trees, and were preparing to fire on our People, who being inferior in Number were obliged to quit them: They were then pursued by a stronger Body of our People, who soon got up with them in a Town belonging to the Catawba Tribe of Indians, where the Horses and some of the Goods were retaken by their Means, and a white Woman, who was with them brought back to Salisbury Supream Court, and there tried, for being concerned with the Indians. At this Court the Catawba Tribe assembled, headed by their King, who being introduced to the Chief Justice of the Court, said, "We are come to inform you of our inviolable Attachment to the English Interest: and that we are noways concerned in the Cherokee Roguery: That we will use all possible Means to bring the Offenders to Justice; and that we have taken up the Hatchet against the French, and those who join them, and are determined not to lay it down without using it." The King Warrior and the rest of his Tribe declared, what he had said was their general Voice, he being their Mouth: After which they seconded it by a War whoop, and performed a Mock fight; and then departed to follow the Cherokees.
