Orders Relative to the Protection of Frontier Inhabitants

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Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Description

Knox gives Captain Burbeck detailed orders relative to his mission to Georgia to protect the frontier inhabitants of that state. He urges particular care in Burbeck's relations with the state government of Georgia and with the neighboring Spanish garrison.

Date

04/10/1790

Author

Henry Knox

Recipient

Henry Burbeck

Repository

National Archives and Records Administration

Collection

Post Revolutionary War Papers, 1784-1815. (RG94)

Document number

1790041000001

Page start

1

Notable persons

Henry Burbeck
Henry Knox
Creek Indians
recruits at West Point
President [Washington]
Governor of Georgia [Telfair]
Militia of the State of Georgia
runaway negroes
Spanish soldiers
guards to be daily mounted on your sloop
Secretary of the Treasury [Hamilton]
Mr. Habersham of Savannah
contractors

Notable locations

West Point
Savannah River
Georgia
St. Marys, southern boundary of the United States
Spanish garrison

Notable items

rounds for the cannon
entrenching tools
block houses
barracks
boats for river transportation
three month's provisions
medicines
hospital stores
two month's full pay
Sloop "Rambler"
fair wind
Brig "States General"
formidable invasion
healthy situation for the encampment of your company
your cannon and stores
disembarkation of the troops and stores
water casks
boards
support for your fortifications
works necessary for your security
line of pallisades
timber
earth
block houses
sketches of works
defenses against Indian attacks
magazines for ammunition
hostile dispositions
exemplary punishment
voyage
habitual and soldierly vigilance
importance of economy
disobedience to your orders
corporal punsihment
contracts to supply rations and provisions
public horse
express
danger
vouchers
triplicate receipts
artillery
baggage
details of training and disciplining your company
your talents and judgement
barrels of your provisions