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SC went to war with Westos
Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121
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In April, 1680, the governor of South Carolina had a conference with certain of the Westo chiefs, but later the Westo attacked some coast Indians, friendly to the [SC] colonists. War followed between them and the English, and, according to the colonial historians, it would have been disastrous to the new settlements had not a body of Shawnee fallen upon their enemies and driven them away from the Savannah.2 This happened in 1681, and the Indians thus dispossessed appear to have settled on Ocmulgec River near the Coweta, then living in the neighborhood of the present Butts County, Georgia. (Swanton)
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