Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Return J. Meigs” in entry oconastoto-indian-chief of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
...k on the colonists with 20,000 Indians.
John Sevier (q. v.) after a five years struggle succeeded in permanently crushing the power of the allied Indians.
Oconastoto was reported alive in 1809 by Return J. Meigs , United States Indian agent, although eighty years previously (1730) he had reached manhood and had represented the Cherokee nation in a delegation sent to England.
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