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Musgrave, Mary
Indian interpreter; was a half-breed Creek, and wife of John Musgrave, a South Carolina trader.
She lived in a hut at Yamacraw, poor and ragged.
Finding she could speak English.
Oglethorpe employed her as interpreter, with a salary of $500 a year.
Her husband died, and she married a man named Mathews.
He, too, died, and about 1749 she became the wife of Thomas Bosomworth, chaplain of Oglethorpe's regiment, a designing knave, who gave the colony much trouble.
He had become heavily indebted to Carolinians for cattle, and, to acquire fortune and power, he persuaded Mary to assert that she had descended in a maternal line from an Indian king, and to claim a right to the whole Creek territory.
She accordingly proclaimed herself empress of the Creeks, disavowed all allegiance to the English, summoned a general convocation of the Creek chiefs, and recounted the wrongs she had suffered at the hands of the English.
Inflamed by her harangue, dictated by Bosomworth, th