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Mackey spurred Lika to kill a Spaniard

Source: Invention of the Creek Nation #95

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The Creeks, then, were not “generally under the sway of Georgia” but content merely to show their apparent proof of fidelity to the British and yet not get drawn too closely into the larger imperial squabbles. 
This is not to say, however, that Creeks never fought against the Spanish or their Indian allies, for evidence indicates that some Creeks carried on a guerrilla war against the Florida presidios for the better part of a decade. Oglethorpe, nevertheless, should not be credited with bringing the Creeks under his sway. The Creeks had their own reasons for fighting such a war and at times were able to conflate their and Oglethorpe’s goals to make it appear that they were fighting on behalf of British imperialism.
Blood revenge, for instance, undoubtedly motivated some to risk their lives in the shadows of the Spanish presidios. Such was the case for Licka, the mico of Osuche who, at the behest of Patrick Mackey, set out toward St. Augustine in late March 1735, where he killed one Spanish soldier and returned the scalp to Savannah that summer to receive an undisclosed present from the Georgia trustees. Though at first glance Licka appears to have been working in Mackey’s employ, evidence suggests that his principal aim was to avenge the death of a brother killed by the Spanish sometime before then and from “whose skull,” in Licka’s words, “they drink at Augustine.”