[undecipherable: page wholly illegible per archival notation] [Representation from the field Officers of the Harrison County Sir/] Virginia — Harrison County February 2. 1790. The President of the United States The alarming predicament in which this County now stands as touching the State of Indian Affairs, and the faint prospect of protection from His Excellency Arthur St Clair, hath moved us the Subscribers to meet this day in General in order to concert measures as far as in our power to calm the minds of our exposed frontiers Who expects early in the Spring to be again harrassed by the Savages — It appears to us by the Address of the General Assembly of Virginia dated the 30^th of October 1789 — that official information has been given to your Excellency of the Indian wanton barbarity on the frontiers of this State, We also learn the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and that the Members of the General Assembly from the [undecipherable] did apply by a Subsequent Address It appears and a part from the said Address Sent by the General Assembly which we trusted would have fell into your hands before Governor St Clair left New Yorks, which now appears to us not to be the case — Therefore the frontiers is left defenseless, the people who lays exposed is complaining they are neglected — that the interior parts of the United States has enjoyed peace since the year 1782, that Government has got thoughtless about the lives of their Citizens &: — We would undertake to give a full Detail of the various incursions made on the frontiers of this County, but our [undecipherable] and County Lieutnenant will hand this petition to your Excellency who we believe will better Satisfy your enquiries than our Detail — We therefore the aforesaid Address of our legislative body, and the Subsequent Address Sent by the Members of this Weston district fully taken in our wishes as touching the mode of present and future Relief. Therefore in the name and behalf of our Suffering fellow Citizens over whom we preside as field Officers of the Militia, pray that your Excellency would take our distressed Situation under your Parental Care and grant us such relief as you in your wisdom shall think proper, and we in Duty bound shall pray — &c. &c. [Signed] Benjamin Wilson, Col. Geo. Jackson Lieut. Col. William Robinson Major