Cavett's Station
He came to a parting of the ways with his former close ally, Doublehead, over the incident at Cavett's Station during Watts' invasion with Cherokee and Muscogee warriors of the Holston River settlements aimed at White's Fort in 1793. There, Benge negotiated the surrender of the garrison and its defenders with the promise of safe passage; Doublehead and his band violated the parole by immediately attacking and killing them all, men, women, and children, indiscriminately, as soon as they were outside the small fort, over the pleas of Benge, John Watts, and James Vann. Benge never operated with Doublehead after this incident, which also began the bitter animosity between Doublehead and Vann that had a good deal to do with the division that remained between the Upper and Lower Towns after the end of the wars in 1794.
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