[434.] having committed murders and outrages on the bounty of [undecipherable] I have therefore to call on you for an explicit declaration of what aid can be obtained on the part of the federal government in order that I may be more fully enabled to make arrangements for the emergency. I am Dear Sir Yours &^c (signed) Edward Telfair Timothy Barnard to Major Henry Gaither Buzzard Roost 12^th February 1793 Sir, I have not the honor of your acquaintance but the present situation of affairs in this quarter declares to me that it is strictly necessary that you should be informed that which if not obstructed may shortly prove of fatal consequences to the frontiers of Georgia, which is as follows. I have certain information that the Inhabitants on the upper frontiers have driven over a number of cattle into the fork of the Tallapatche which ground the Indians still look upon as theirs, therefore are determined to go down, and drive off all the stock they find there and if they meet with any opposition will kill those that oppose them, as there you may be sure will go a body large enough to execute their designs, I have prevailed on the head men to restrain them for twenty days, and am setting off to the towns to do the same, there, and am in hopes they will be stopped this