July 1795: Cotton gin arrives in Natchez
http://www.concordiasentinel.com/print.php?story=4621

May 1796: American newspapers carry the news of the Treaty of San Lorenzo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinckney's_Treaty

June 29, 1796: The Creeks agree to protect the Ellicott survey of the line of demarcation between Spain and the U.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Colerain

http://www.charltoncountyarchives.org/colerainemcqueen.html

http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/062299/mom_1a2MilMo.html

http://www.ourgeorgiahistory.com/year/1796

February 24, 1797: Ellicott arrives in Natchez.
http://www.natchezgardenclub.com/Ellicot.html

August 15, 1799: The Indians assembled at Ellicott's Chattahoochee camp in present day Houston County, Alabama, agree to protect the survey.

September 14, 1799: Hawkins arrives at Ellicott's camp at River Junction in present-day Chattahoochee, Florida, and a few days later the camp is plundered and the survey is abandoned.

November 4, 1799: Hawkins' police force notifies him that the perpetrators who chased the survey party off had been punished
.http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ugapressbks/pdfs/ugp9780820334516.pdf

November 27, 1799: Hawkins uses the incident with the survey party to take over the Upper and Lower Creek Councils and establishes a national form of government and law.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~texlance/serialset/doc249/doc249e1.htm

http://digital.library.okstate.edu/icc/v02/iccv02p066.pdf