Excerpt from A History of Rome and Floyd County, Vol. 1: State of Georgia United States of America; Including Numerous Incidents of More Than Local Interest; 1540 1922 Home, Sweet Home author bears letters to prominent Georgians. Loves an Athens belle. - Departs for Indian country. - Is arrested with John Ross and guarded at Spring Place. - Big John Underwood. Rome grocer. One of his captors. - Payne's own account. - His arrest causes sen sation - Old Hickory's contribution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.