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Cherokees have surrendered... Marriage of the New Hampshire governor...
Cherokees have surrendered... Marriage of the New Hampshire governor...
Item # 693563
May 31, 1760
THE LONDON CHRONICLE, England, May 31, 1760
* Anglo-Cherokees War
* South Carolina Indians
* British colonial settlers
The front page has two small bits: "...letters from Charles Town, South Carolina...we learn that the Cherokee Indians had laid down their arms & were gone home." Also: "...from Portsmouth in New Hampshire that...his Excellency 'Governor Wentworth was married there to Miss Hilton...".
Page 6 has a report headed: "America" with news taken from the New York Gazette with judicial matters.
Eight pages, 8 by 10 3/4 inches, minor rubbing at front page folds, otherwise nice condition.
AI notes: In 1759, tensions between the Cherokee Nation and British colonists in South Carolina reached a breaking point, leading to the outbreak of the Anglo-Cherokee War. Though the Cherokee had initially allied with the British during the French and Indian War, mutual distrust and frontier violence—particularly the unprovoked killing of returning Cherokee warriors by Virginia settlers—soured relations. Retaliatory Cherokee raids on frontier settlements prompted South Carolina's governor, William Henry Lyttelton, to declare war and march a force into Cherokee territory. In a controversial move, Lyttelton captured 32 Cherokee diplomats and held them hostage at Fort Prince George in a failed attempt to force peace. Instead of securing a resolution, the imprisonment inflamed tensions, leading to intensified Cherokee attacks and a prolonged conflict. While some smaller Cherokee groups may have submitted temporarily or sought peace in 1759, the majority of the nation resisted, and there was no formal or widespread surrender that year. The war would escalate further into 1760 and only end after a brutal British campaign in 1761 that devastated Cherokee towns and forced a peace treaty.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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