The Georgians were pushing steadily westward, and were grasping the Creek hunting-grounds with ferocious greed.

They had repeatedly endeavored to hold treaties with the Creeks.

On each occasion the chiefs and warriors of a few towns met them, and either declined to do anything, or else signed an agreement which they had no power to enforce.

A sample treaty of this kind was that entered into at Galphinton in 1785.

The Creeks had been solemnly summoned to meet representatives both of the Federal Congress and of Georgia; but on the appointed day only two towns out of a hundred were represented.