USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Musgrove continued to work as an interpreter for General Oglethorpe. She helped maintain peaceful and fair trade relations between the new Georgia Colony and the Creek Nation. During her time in Yamacraw Bluff, she successfully negotiated relations between the Yamacraw Chief, Tomochichi, and the Savannah settlers.

Detailed explanation-2: -She served as his chief interpreter from 1733 to 1743. It is primarily thanks to Mary Musgrove’s understanding of both cultures that the relationship between early Savannah settlers and the Creek Natives was friendly.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mary Musgrove, daughter of an English trader and Creek Indian mother, served as a translator for Tomochichi and Oglethorpe and helped the peaceful relationship between Indians and colonists by operating a trading post in Savannah.

Detailed explanation-4: -From the colony’s inception Musgrove placed herself in the center of Oglethorpe’s dealings with neighboring Creek Indians. As interpreter for Oglethorpe and Yamacraw Indian chief Tomochichi, Musgrove was instrumental in the peaceful founding of Savannah, and by extension, the Georgia colony.

Detailed explanation-5: -About a month after the colonists arrived, Tomochichi came to visit Oglethorpe in Savannah. Through the efforts of interpreter Mary Musgrove, he and Oglethorpe drafted a treaty allowing Oglethorpe to establish the City of Savannah and Tomochichi to benefit from trade with the colonists.