Today in Chickamauga History - Month of May
1788, May: Outraged by the Treaty of Coytoy, in May 1788 a Cherokee party killed eleven of the twelve members of the John KIRK family, who were homesteaders on Little River southwest of present-day Knoxville, Tennessee. John KIRK, the head of the family, was away at the time. Col. John SEVIER, who was attempting to suppress the Overhill uprisings, led retaliatory raids against numerous Cherokee towns in the Little Tennessee Valley. Another officer, Major James HUBBARD, persuaded OLD TASSEL, chief ABRAHAM of Chilhowee, and three other Cherokee to meet him to parley under a flag of truce at ABRAHAM's house. He allowed KIRK to murder them by tomahawk for revenge in June 1788.
1792, May: Minutes of the Conference with the Cherokees - Minutes of the conference at Coyatee with the chiefs and warriors of the Cherokees, in which Blount describes the circumstances of his entrance into the Cherokee town and the celebrations in preparation for Blount's address to the tribe. – Notable Person / Group: Eskaqua, John Watts, Richard Justice, Breath of Nickajoack, Will of Running Water – Notable Phrase: As soon as I entered the space, a firing commenced in the manner of a feu de joie and handsomely kept up until I had passed through. Shouts of joy instantly followed, and immediately after I had alighted, under the standard of the United States, I was surrounded by the whole number with countenances demonstrative of more joy than I had heretofore been a witness of. - http://wardepartmentpapers.org/s/home/item/43029