A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . ng owned Fairfield Plantation,Camden County, where he diedJune 24, 1839, after having servedin the State Legislature and inCongress. He defeated the CreekIndians, allies of the British, at Autossee, Fort Defiance, and Chin-ibee, Ala., and so complete was therout that the warlike Creeks asa nation never afterward becamedangerous along the border, andthe comparatively peaceful settle-ment of Northwest Georgia wasmade possible. Another civili
A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . ng owned Fairfield Plantation,Camden County, where he diedJune 24, 1839, after having servedin the State Legislature and inCongress. He defeated the CreekIndians, allies of the British, at Autossee, Fort Defiance, and Chin-ibee, Ala., and so complete was therout that the warlike Creeks asa nation never afterward becamedangerous along the border, andthe comparatively peaceful settle-ment of Northwest Georgia wasmade possible. Another civilizing influenceabout this time was the inventionof the Cherokee alphabet of 85characters by Sequoyah (GeorgeGuess or Gist), an uneducated In-dian who lived at Alpine, Chattoo-ga County, and who was a fre-quent visitor to Major Ridges athis home on the Oostanaula. Se-quoyah wrote on bark with poke-berry juice, instructed his littledaughter and any Indian whowished to learn. He went west tothe Indian country in a few years,and presently his alphabet wasadopted by the Cherokee Nationand was used along with English incopies of the Cherokee Phoenix,. *Site of Coosa village. GEN. JOHN FLOYD, Indian fighter and Con-gressman, after whom in 1832 Floyd Countywas named. 26 A History of Rome and Floyd County the paper edited at New Echota byElias Boudinot. Several glimpses into Indian andfrontier life are given in The Lawsof the Cherokees, published bythe Cherokee Advocate at Tahle-quah, Okla., in 1852. One of theseif contained in an order from thechiefs and warriors in NationalCouncil at Brooms Town, , 1808. (Brooms Town wasprobably Broom Town, CherokeeCounty, Ala., in Broom Town Val-ley, and about five miles fromCloudland, Chattooga County, Ga.).The order forms regulating com-panies of one captain, one lieu-tenant and four privates each, atannual salaries of $50, $40 and $30,respectively, for the purpose ofarresting horse thieves and pro-tecting property. The penalty forstealing a
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