The Life and Times of Mary Musgrove

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277 Africans, 38, 43, 64. See also Slaves Agriculture, 33–34, 119, 139. See also Corn/ Maize; Rice Alcoholism/alcohol abuse. See Drunkenness Ambition/social status, 5, 57–58, 66, 73–74, 170, 182 Anglicans, 34–35, 68; education conforming to, 46–49; rise in South Carolina, 43; Wesley critical of, 108–9. See also Bosomworth, Thomas Apalachee, 25–26 Archeological finds, 1–8, 84, 119; illustrations of, 143–48 Atasi King, 200 Atkin, Edmund, 228–29 Baptism, 36, 45, 47; Jones infant’s, 110–11; Mary’s, 31, 49, 106–7; of Mary’s niece and nephews, 126–27, 130–31; Watson’s mock, 95 Baptists, 34 Baronial grants, 77–78 “Bastard” children, 60, 131–32, 139, 218 Bellarmine jar, 84–85, 144 Bible, 37, 43, 45–46, 104 Biculturalism: Georgia rejecting, 151; “Indian John” Musgrove and, 60; Mary’s, 7, 32, 35–54, 56–57, 170, 204, 234; multicultural enclaves and 83, 65, 118 Bilingualism, 40–43, 65–66, 85 Bosomworth, Abraham, 168, 171, 176, 181, 185, 230–31 Index Bosomworth, Adam, 152, 178–79, 210, 221–22; and Elizabeth, 231 Bosomworth, Mary, 55, 149–235 Bosomworth, Thomas, 55, 149–58; as Anglican priest, 153–55, 176, 178, 221, 231; chronic debt of, 149, 161; early years of, 151–53;“entitlement” of, 154–55; legal skills of, 184; lengthy 1756 narrative of, 221; reasons for marrying, 158; returning to England, 156, 160–61; second wife and son of, 231; as soldier, 155–56 Bosomworth controversy, 115, 174, 219; Malatchi’s role in, 164, 172, 180, 207–8 Bosomworth couple: almost undone by Georgia, 188; long-planned England trip of, 176–77, 187, 190–91, 210;“Savannah incident” and, 174–89, 227; self-interest of, 200–201, 235; twilight of, 229–31 Branding marks, 61, 72 Brims, 14, 18, 124, 163, 171, 201, 206, 214 Catechism, 46–49 Cattle ranching, 34, 56, 59, 66–68, 71–74, 83–84; on St. Catherine’s Island, 164, 230 Causton, Thomas, 96–97, 100–101, 109–10, 158, 165 Charles Town, 15, 63, 77, 106, 205; applying to be agents in, 175; deerskins important to, 23; Indian trade in, 16–17; Indians sold in, 25; refugees in, 51, 54; Thomas lying low in, 185; worried about Spain, 120–21 Cherokees, 175, 189, 201, 228–29 278 · Index Chigelly, 53–54, 70–71, 101, 124, 165, 167; invited to visit Heron, 170; private consultation with, 192–95 Childbirth, 5, 9–11, 18, 56, 59, 63, 222 Choctaws, 93–94 Christ. See Jesus Christ Christianity, 5; education of Indian youth in, 43–44, 104; Mary’s education in, 31, 234 Christians: Indians as, 26, 92; the Musgroves as, 61–62; only“Christian testimony” allowed, 165 Christie, Thomas: minutes of, 117, 141–42, 209 Claims. See Land claims, Mary’s Coastal islands, 172, 186, 188, 208–9, 215; relinquishing, 225 Colleton County, 148; beef production in, 71; Creek community in, 56; John’s purchase of land in, 62; Mary as Creek woman in, 55–80 Colonists: John as, 66–67; Mary as, 56–57 Commons House of Assembly, South Carolina, 18, 58, 62; John Musgrove qualified for, 72; prohibiting Indian land purchases, 226 Conversion to Christianity, 31–32, 43, 92, 102–4, 158 Coosaponakeesa, 174–202, 204, 214–15, 218 Corn/maize, 12, 21 Council of South Carolina, 78 Coverture, 39–40 Coweta, 3, 7, 9, 62; chief town of Creek nation, 11; Dodsworth’s visit to, 26–27; Edward Griffin Sr. in, 18; past of, 11; political questions in, 124; as refuge during war, 126; trading with South Carolina, 13; war in, 27–28; woman offered to trader in, 13–14 Cowpen, 85–90; bequeathed to sons, 92; as cattle ranch, 71–73, 83–84; cultural complexity of, 87; improvements on, 84; Lower Creeks at, 117; managed by Robert Williams, 118–19; Mary and Malatchi at, 124; returning to, 119–20, 138–39; sold to Francis, 187; at time of John’s death, 101–2; Wesley at, 111 Credit, 17, 29, 79, 82, 185. See also Debt Creek agency, 189–205 Creek hostilities/wars: with Florida’s Spanish mission Indians, 25; John Musgrove as Creek warrior, 60, 71; against South Carolina, 49–54; against Yamasees, 71 Creek nation: as allies with English, 229; Anglo-Creek treaties, 26, 121; childbirth in, 9–10, 55; childhood in, 20–24, 48; conference with Glen (1753), 206; Coweta chief town of, 11; debts to the English of, 25; Ellis’s Creek treaty (1757) and, 225; female blood in...