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Excerpt from Quarterly Publication of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio, Vol. 8: 1913, Nos; 2 and 3, April-June, July-September; Documents Relating to Zachariah Cox
An advance party of eighteen proceeded down the Tennessee and erected a block house on an island at the Muscle Shoals. Soon after their arrival a band of savages visited them, and by threatening to put them to death, caused them to abandon the newly constructed work, which they promptly burned. In the meantime Secretary Knox had informed the President of the project and opposed it on the ground that it would arouse the Indians. Washington thereupon issued a proclamation against this and similar undertakings, in virtue of which the Secretary directed Governor stop the expedition. The latter accordingly despatched an officer after the company to inform its promoters of the President's proclamation and to warn them that if they did not return the Indians would be at liberty to act towards them as they might think proper, without offense to the government of the United States; and that even if the Indians Should permit them to settle at Muscle Shoals, the United States would government not.
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