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Fort Mimms, at Tallushatches (now known as Tallahassee),
or the Ten Islanders, killing every warrior engaged in the
battle, the battle being fought in the town - an Indian
woman was accidentally killed, and when found by General
Coffee after the battle there was on her breast an infant
only a few days old. All the women and children, and
among them this infant, were taken to General Jackson's
headquarters. The story given him by General Coffee
touched his great big heart. In his chest was a small
supply of sugar, with which he kept the child alive. The
Indian women refused to nurse him, saying: "All his kin
are dead; let him die." In a few days General Jackson
sent the child back to Huntsville, perhaps a hundred
miles, with instructions to employ a nurse at his expense.
This was early in November 1813, and so the Indian boy was
nursed and kept alive until General Jackson came home in
1815, the acknowledged victor over the British army, and a
great nation singing his praises in every home. But he
remembered the Indian baby and sent for it; had it brought
to the Hermitage, where he became to object of tender
care by both General and Mrs. Jackson. The General
named the boy Lincoyer. For fifteen years the Indian boy
was the pet at the Hermitage; then the General took him
to the city and put him at a trade, the same trade that
he had learned when a boy, that of harnessmaker. The
Indian boy worked in the shop, but spent his Sundays at
the Hermitage, until his health failed. The he went
back to the home and care of Mrs. Jackson, who nursed
him until he died of consumption, at the age of seventeen.
When he died the great conqueror of Packinham wept as if
the boy had been his own son."