Hey on another group I belong to one lady said “if the Lord willing and the creek dont rise to an answer to something and I remember something I had heard a long time ago.. I always thought it made reference to a running water creek but it actually means The Creek Indians. Here is your reference. This is just info for what it is worth. I found it interesting and thought I would share. It is amazing of all the sayings we do say that originated hundreds of years ago. It is non quilt related, sewing, cooking or whatever. It was just something I remembered and wanted to share. Like “minding your P’s and Q’s” . I found that one interesting also and amusing. Watch your Pints and Quarts.. British saying.
The remark was first said by Benjamin Hawkins, q.v., and the phrase should be correctly written as ‘God willing and the Creek don’t rise’. Hawkins, college-educated and a well-written man would never have made a grammatical error, so the capitalization of Creek is the only way the phrase could make sense. He wrote it in response to a request from the President to return to our Nation’s Capital and the reference is not to a creek, but The Creek Indian Nation. If the Creek “rose”, Hawkins would have to be present to quell the rebellion. I believe that the phrase is somewhere in his preserved writings.
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That’s a new wrinkle for me. I always thot the same thing “creek” meaning water. Thanks for the info.
Now that is really interesting. I never knew there were (or are) natives with that name. Glad you posted this!
Yes Edna, we have Creek Indians in Alabama.. I am not sure where else but we do here.