He landed in Charleston in 1735 at the age of sixteen and presently joined a trader's caravan as packhorse boy.

A few years later he married a woman of the Creeks.

On many occasions he defeated French and Spanish plots with the Creeks for the extermination of the colonists in Georgia and South Carolina.

His action in the final war with the French (1760), when the Indian terror was raging, is typical.

News came that four thousand Creek warriors, reinforced by French Choctaws, were about to fall on the southern settlements.