[183] factions in this juncture will affect the operations of Government in a serious degree. The agents for supplies has afforded much relief, by furnishing the men called into service, and on a continuation of such supplies, will depend the fate of Georgia. I have the honor to be, Sir your most obedient humble Servant Edw^d Telfair The Secretary of War, Extract from the deposition of Michael Bripps and Nancy Smith, before Elisha Seymour Esquire, one of the Justices of the peace for the County of Greene, dated 23^d April 1793. Michael Bripps, was near the Oconee river on monday the 22^d instant, and heard a gun fired, and saw about thirty Indians firing upon and Massacreing Richard Thrasher, his children and a Negro Wench; at the same time the wife of the deceased with in-creased [undecipherable] ran and leaped into the river, the Indians firing upon her as she fled. The woman was found alive scalped, wounded in both her Thighs, her right hand with balls and stabbed in her left breast with a Knife, her left arm cut nearly off, as is supposed with a Tomahawk of which wounds she died in about twenty four hours. the Infant was found drowned, without any marks of violence upon it. Nancy Smith deponed, the number of Indians was in her opinion, nearly one hundred