The Seminoles, he added, were puffed up with conceit, and were laboring under a fatal delusion of receiving aid from the British. They felt sure of being able to beat the Americans. " They assert tbat we have never beaten their people except when we have been assisted by 'red people.'"


Parton's Biography of Jackson https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=bGYFAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA465

RED HILLS OF FLORIDA http://ufdc.ufl.edu/FS00000080/00001/74j

 Finally found all the First Seminole War papers from the American State Papers FREE online. Looks like some of our kinfolks from Newton and Geneva may have been making claims on the Choctawhatchee as early as 1817. This letter was introduced as evidence in the trial of  Alexander Arbuthnott before Jackson had him hanged from the yardarm of Arbuthnott's own ship off St. Marks:

from EXHIBIT F of the trial of Alexander Arbuthnott:
a letter from A. Arbuthnott to Col. Edward Nicholls mailed from Nassau, New Providence (Bahamas), August 26, 1817
"The backwood Georgians, and those resident on the borders of the Indian nation, are continually entering it, and driving off cattle. They have in some instances made settlements, and particularly on the Choctohachy river, where a considerable number have descended."

 https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=5YFHAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA144