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Oglethorpe negotiated alliance with Creek in response to French threat from Canada

Source: An Account shewing the Progress of the Colony of Georgia #176

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From 1741 AN ACCOUNT, SHEWING THE PROGRESS OF THE COLONY OF GEORGIA IN AMERICA, FROM IT'S FIRST ESTABLISHMENT.
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From the 9th June 1739, to the 9th June 1740.

Oglethorpe negotiated alliance with Creek in response to French threat from Canada
This Journey of General Oglethorpe's has since appeared to be of great Service to the Public; for on the 26 August 1739, Mr. Stephens received an Express from Col. Bull Lieutenant Governor of South-Carolina, that he had Intelligence from Lieutenant Governor Clarke of New-York concerning the French Marching from Mont-Real near Quebeck with a Body of about Two Hundred Regular Troops and Five Hundred Indians, who were to be re-inforced by French and Indians in their Journey: That this Army was designed against the Indians in Friendship with his Britannick Majesty's Subjects of Carolina and Georgia who are situated near some Branches of the Mississippi River. Col. Bull added, that he should immediately dispatch an Express to the Creek-Nations with Advice to General Oglethorpe of the Contents of Lieutenant Governor Clarke's Letter, and that it was necessary that both the Provinces of Carolina and Georgia should be on their Guard, tho' if the Creek Indians should prove True the Danger would not be great; General Oglethorpe by his Treaties with the Indians in this Journey has confirmed them in the British Interest, and made a new Treaty with them whereby 30 their former Concession of Lands to Great-Britain was confirmed and Extended.