Francis the Prophet, whose Indian name was Hillis Hadjo, was an important Creek chief forced to leave his home in the Alabama Territory at the end of the Creek War of 1813-14, after which he established a new town on the Wakulla River several miles above Ft. St. Marks. In 1818, when Gen Andrew Jackson led an army into Spanish Florida against the Seminoles, a young Georgia militia private, Duncan McKrimmon, became lost while fishing near recently constructed Ft. Gadsden and after several days was captured by Indians from Francis Town. Taken there, stripped, and bound to await execution, he was spared when Francis’ younger daughter, about fifteen-year-old Malee, Anglicized as Milly, begged his captors to save his life. Instead of being shot, he was sold to the Spaniards at Ft. St. Marks, who released him. Soon afterward, Francis the Prophet was detained by U.S. forces and hanged on April 8, 1818, by order of General Jackson. A few months later, Francis’ family surrendered with other Seminoles and remained at Ft. Gadsden for several weeks awaiting removal to a reservation in the West. McKrimmon traveled there and, out of gratitude, offered to marry Milly, but she refused. She later lived in Indian Territory on the Arkansas River, where she married and had several children. In 1842, Lt. Col. E. A. Hitchcock found her there widowed and in poverty and began efforts that led Congress in 1844 to grant her a pension of $96.00 a year and a Congressional medal. Because of delays, the pension was not activated until 1848, when Milly was on her deathbed, and there is no evidence that the medal recommended for saving Duncan McKrimmon’s life was ever cast.