The chief episode in the 1751 Indian alarm occurred on a branch of
the thinly settled Little Saluda. The head of the stream later called
Clouds Creek was formed by several springs near the crossing of the
natural routes from the Congarees to Fort Moore and from Ninety Six
to Orangeburg; for that reason, probably, the place appealed to the retired
Indian trader Isaac Cloud, and here he made his home. At midnight of
May 7, 1751, Mary Cloud arrived at the house of Martin Friday, in Saxe
Gotha, and there gave her narrative on oath before Daniel Scheider,
captain of the militia company:
"That on the fourth Instant two Indians came to my House about
Half-way between the Congrees and Savannah Town. The Indians were
Savannas. They came there about dark, and sate down very civilly;
and my Husband being able to talk their Tongue they talked a great
while together, And I gave them Supper. And they asked my Husband
for Pipes and Tobacco, and he gave it them. And we sate up until
Midnight, and then we all went to Sleep; and they lay down too and
pulled off their Mogassens and Boots. One of them broke his Pipe, and
he came to the Bed to my Husband, who handed unto him his Pipe out
of his Mouth,
