While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Bowlegs (probably corrupted from Bolek). An
inferior
Seminole chief who was brought temporarily into notice in 1812 during the
Indian war on the Georgia frontier. When early in that year King Paine, also a
Seminole chief, at the head of sundry bands of Seminole and Negroes, started on
a mission of blood and plunder, Bowlegs joined him. A small force under Capt.
Williams was met and defeated Sept. 11. Their force being considerably
increased, they soon there after marched from the Alachua towns to attack Gen.
Neuman, who had been sent against them with orders to destroy their towns. After
4 severe charges in which King Paine was killed and Bowlegs wounded, the Indians
were driven back. With this occurrence Bowlegs drops from history, though he
probably lived several years longer. In a document exhibited in the trial of
Arbuthnott and Ambrister his name is signed Boleck. (C. T.)
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
