John Stuart (loyalist)

Captain Stuart's familiarity with Native Americans and the frontier earned his appointment in 1761 as superintendent in the British Indian Department.

[1] His role was to help Great Britain and the colonies bring order to their relations with the Southeast Indians (who became known as the "Five Civilized Tribes").

[1] He helped build relations with the Southeast Indians and bring peace to the backcountry in the years before the American Revolutionary War.

In the summer of 1776, the Cherokee opened a series of concerted attacks against frontier settlements from Tennessee to central South Carolina, hoping to expel the colonists.

While called the Rutherford Expedition, most of the Cherokee Towns were destroyed by forces commanded by Major Andrew Williamson of South Carolina.