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1776. Virginia, North-Carolina, SouihCaroIina, and Geor- gia each fent about the fame time a confiderable force over the Alleghany mountains, which traverfcd the Indi- an fettlements, burned their towns, and deftroyed their fields of corn. Above 500 of the Cherokees were oblig- / ed, from the want of provifions, to take refuge in Weflr Florida, and were there fed at the expence of the Britil'h government. Thefe unfortunate milled people fucd for peace in the moft fubmiflive terms, and foon afte...r alFentcd to a treaty, by which they ceded a confiderable part of their land to South-Carolina. The deciilon with which this expedition was condudled intimidated the Cherokees, for fome years, from farther hoftilities. Very different was the cafe of thofe Indians who were in the vicinity of the Britifli pofls, and contiguous to the frontier of the northern and middle Slates. The prefents which they continurtllv AMERICAN REVOLUTION. continually received from England, the induftry of the Britifti agents, and the influence of a great number of American refugees who had taken {helter among them, operating on their native paffion for rapine, excited them to frequent holiile excurlions.
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