. History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography. ader, James Adair, was traveling on officialbusiness from the Chickasaw nation toCharleston. One day, about ten oclock inthe morning, somewhere on the trading pathbetween Flint River and Okmulgee, he meta party of hostile Shawnees, from whom hemanaged to escape. About sun set on thesame day he met another party of Indians,whom he at first supposed were also Shaw-nees. But, he writes,—I discovered themto be a considerable body of the Muskohgeheadmen, returning home with presents fromCharles-Town, which they carried on theirbacks. The wol
. History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography. ader, James Adair, was traveling on officialbusiness from the Chickasaw nation toCharleston. One day, about ten oclock inthe morning, somewhere on the trading pathbetween Flint River and Okmulgee, he meta party of hostile Shawnees, from whom hemanaged to escape. About sun set on thesame day he met another party of Indians,whom he at first supposed were also Shaw-nees. But, he writes,—I discovered themto be a considerable body of the Muskohgeheadmen, returning home with presents fromCharles-Town, which they carried on theirbacks. The wolf king (as the traders term-ed him) our old steady friend of the Amook-lasah Town, near the late Alebahma, cameforemost, harnessed like a jack-ass, with asaddle on his back, well girt over one shoul-der, and across under the other. We seemedequally glad to meet each other, they, tohear how affairs stood in their country, aswell as on the trading path; and I to find,that instead of bitter-hearted foes, they werefriends, and would secure my retreat from. HISTORY OF ALABAMA any pursuit that might happen. Apart fromhis pleasant meeting with Adair, the firstnoteworthy appearance of Wolf King in his-tory is at the treaty made by the Creekswith Sir Henry Ellis, Governor of Georgia,and his board of council in Savannah, onNovember 3, 1757. The Governor had aboutAugust 1, sent Joseph Wright, a man fa-miliar with the Creek language, into theCreek nation, which was then in ill mood,to invite the chiefs of the Upper and theLower Creeks to a conference to be heldwith them in Savannah. There the Indianswould receive the Kings presents, and atthe same time, an effort would be made toremove the ill impressions they had conceivedof the English. Wright was successful inhis mission in persuading many to go toSavannah. The Indians arrived on October27, and were received with imposing cere-monies and with the firing of the guns of thefort. They represented twenty-one towns ofthe Upper and Lower Cr
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