1839 SET INDIAN TRADE BEADS-HARNEY MASSACRE-BILLY BOWLEGS-SEMINOLE RAID OF FORT.
A LITTLE OVER 24 INCHES OF BEADS.
HISTORY OF THE MASSACRE:
Lt. Col . William S, Harney, along with 30 others, were manning the Fort and it\'s trading post, when they were attacked by Seminole Chief Holatamico (BILLY BOWLEGS) and 250 Seninole warriors. The colonel and 4 other survived the raid.. Bill Bowlegs looted everthing. Somehow these beads survived the raid and several years ago were recovered from the site. After years on conflict with the Seminoles in Florida, peace seemed to be a real possibility in the summer of 1839. General McComb had reached an agreement with the Seminoles, giving them a prime reservation in Southwestern, Florida.Complying to McComb\'s agreement, a trading post was set up within the reservation on the Caloosahatchee River. Twenty-six soldiers, armed with Colt rifles, under the command of Lt. Col. William S. Harney, Second Dragoons, was assigned the task of protecting the trading post. During the month of July, it became known to the Seminoles the McComb\'s treaty with them was just a temporary one and they would not be allowed to stay on the reservation. They felt betrayed and vented their anger on July 22nd, 1839, by attacking the trading post at dawn.
Over 200 indians led by Checkika, Hospetarke, and Billy Bowlegs, overwhelmed the soldiers reulting in the death of eighteen dragoons. Trader Dalham, his two clerks, and pilot McCarty had been killed. Harney and several other troppers escaped into the nearby river. The Indians took goods valued at $3000, $1000 in cash, and the property of the soldiers, including 14 Colt rifles with ammunition and burned the trading post ot the ground.
The massacre stunned all of Florida and General Zachary Taylor began a immediate campaign to rid Florida of all the Seminoles.
By the autumn of 1841, less than a 1000 Indians remained in all Florida, including women and children.
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