Final Tragedy
Gen. William McIntosh, President of the Creek Nation, after
the Council had finished its work at
Indian Springs, remained
there some time gathering together the Council records, closing up his
personal affairs and removing his personal property from Indian Springs and
his Ocmulgee farm, and some time near the first of August, 1825, he made his
way back to McIntosh Reserve in the present Carroll County. There a number
of chiefs waited upon him, and giving him one day to arrange his affairs,
they executed him in accordance with the Creek laws for the violation of
their agreement not to sell any further territory without unanimous consent
of the Council.
The above incident is noted in order to show some of the causes of the
subsequent raids and annoyances experienced by the pioneers at the hands of
the Indians in retaliation for the treacherous sale of their hunting
grounds. The chief of Tokaubatchie was recorded in the treaty as being
present and not assenting to the sale, and his followers did not consider an
illegal treaty as binding upon them.
Thus was the territory between the Flint and the Chattahoochee rivers
acquired by the United States for the State of Georgia. The State of Georgia
at once took steps to survey and subdivide this newly acquired territory
into land districts and land lots preparatory to the creation of counties.
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