A glimpse into Indian living

"We left Tellico Block House in the company of a respected Indian, named Tay, to whom

we had been directed. We regretted very much that it was impossible to find someone who could have talked both Indian and English at the same time, but we were assured that in the Indian towns we would find enough people who were fluent in both languages. 

We spent the first night at Big Tellico, a town which has 44 houses. The reception which we had at the home of an Indian, Kulsatahi, was good according to his national customs; for supper we had bread baked from corn and beans and a remarkable soup of honey-locust pods. Here we could make ourselves understood only with signs. On the 14th of November (1799) in the evening we arrived near the Baptist (Dunkard) of who we have heard in Salem. He lost his companion sometime ago, when he was killed in the felling of a tree. 

Next to his tidy cottage live three Indian families. They visited us that evening and his

next-door neighbor invited us to his house the next morning and treated us with milk. The entire arrangement in the house indicated orderly and right-living people; they keep cattle, horses, etc. The Dunkard, who had been Anspach troops and is a linen-weaver by profession, instructs them in his craft and in field and garden cultivation..." -- Tellico Block House, 19th November 1799, authored by Friedrich v. Schweinitz