Alarming & Melancholy Account of Creek Depredations
Document 1793Seagrove provides a detailed account of depredations apparently committed by renegade Lower Creeks.
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Type
Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Description
Seagrove provides a detailed account of depredations apparently committed by renegade Lower Creeks.
Date
03/17/1793
Author
Recipient
Sent from
St. Mary's
Collection
Document number
1793031740000
Note
Cited in Seagrove to Knox, 04/19/1793, and 06/10/1793.
Notable persons
Henry Knox
James Seagrove
chiefs of the Creek Nation
Lower Creeks
friendly Indian
my neighbors
well mounted volunteers
Robert Seagrove
John Fleming
Daniel Moffit
murderers
Burnt fort on Great Setilla
Major Gaither
federal troops in this State [Georgia]
company of militia horse [cavalry]
the President [Washington]
prisoner
Notable locations
St. Mary's
Savannah
frontier
Trader's Hill
river St. Mary's
Coleraine
Philadelphia
fort St. Tammany
boundary line from the Altamaha to the St. Mary's
Notable items
perfect tranquility
mischief
murder
two thousand pounds sterling in goods
horses
public stores
state of defense
attack from savages
my private dispatches
vessel
early intelligence
affidavits
late outrage
war