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Cheif Benge's last raid ~ The Livingston Farm - OU0614
Near Mendota along Livingston Creek.
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Altitude: sous le niveau de la mer
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États-Unis > Virginia
Type de boite: Traditionnel
Taille: Petite
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Cachée le: 2013-03-15
Date de création: 2013-03-15
Date de publication: 2013-03-15
Dernière mise à jour: 2016-04-06 
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A historical account of the last raid of Chickamauga War Chief Bob Benge, the greatest warrior of Cherokee War Chief Draggin Canoe. Chief Draggin Canoe was angered by the sale of Cherokee lands, and his people being forced from their homeland and hunting grounds by the white settlers. He formed an alliance of young Cherokee, Shawnee, Delaware, and other Native Americans that were called the Chickamaugas or Lower Cherokee by the colonials to wage war upon the white settlers.
Nearby was located the Livingston Farm. One of the most beautiful farms in Scott County known as the 'Livingston Place'. It is situated on the North Fork of Holston, near the mouth of Livingston's Creek. This tract of land was first occupied, it seems, by William Todd Livingston, who enjoyed the rather unique distinction of being the first, and, for some years, the only man in Washington County to have a double christian name. Upon the death of William Todd Livingston, his sons, Peter and Henry, inherited his estate, including a large number of slaves. Now for some reason, the Indians often sought out the Negro slaves for the purpose of capture. This seems to have been particularly true of Benge, who, it was thought, sometimes made trips to the settlements in order to spy out the farms upon which Negro slaves were employed. The presence of Negro slaves on the Livingston farm, therefore, may have caused the attack which Benge and his warriors made upon it.
On April 6, 1794 Cheif Benge and his warriors raided and looted the farm. They forced their captives through this natural Gap that is known today as Jett Gap and crossed the Clinch Mountain at Fugates Gap and then on to Copper Creek near the mouth of Obeys Creek, where they made camp for the night. This was a rougher route that they took in order to avoid the Moccasin Gap where many of the early settlers were normally present in the area. This is where the Great Warriors Path split and continued West to the Gap in the Cumberlands, or turned North toward Fort Blackmore and to the Shawnee towns in Ohio on the Maimi River.
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