On this day 250 years ago Indian trader David Taitt wrote to John Stuart, the British Superintendent for Southern Indians, about a Talk between Indian trader George Galphin and his friend Young Lieutenant of the Creeks. Galphin warned Young Lieutenant that “You must take care to tell the Young People not to be frightening the traders and telling them they will knock them in the head as they often do when drunk.” Taitt and Stuart ended up as Loyalists who fled America at the end of the Revolution but Galphin was a Patriot and was appointed American Superintendent for the Southern Indians when Stuart continued to adhere to the Crown.

Source: Cashin, Edward J., William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier at pp. 74-75.