Because of his position against private property and his policy to provide refuge for runaway slaves and debtors in Cherokee territory, his surrender was demanded by the British authorities in 1739 and when on his way to New Orleans in 1743, he was caught by British-allied Creeks and handed over to the British colonial authorities, eventually dying under imprisonment in Frederica, Georgia.
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August 30 – Creek War – Fort Mims massacre: A force of Creeks belonging to the Red Sticks faction kill hundreds of settlers in Fort Mims in Alabama.
The land in southern Georgia had been ceded by the Creeks in the Treaty of Fort Jackson, but the Mikasukis did not consider themselves Creek, did not feel bound by the treaty, and did not accept that the Creeks had any right to cede Mikasuki land.