[174.] [hundred] Taken from the files of the Executive Attest W Urquhart S&D Extract of a Letter from Andrew Pickens Esquire to General Clarke. Hopewell 22^d April 1793 "Received this morning by a post from a friend that the whole of the Creek nation Crept the [undecipherable] had declared war against the United States that John Golphin, with from two hundred d[undecipherable] Warriors, had set out about sixteen days ago to join the Seminoles and was to fall on the southern parts of Georgia — but my information leads me to believe that they intend to make a blound along the frontiers of Georgia and this State." Taken from the files of the Ex. Dept. Attest W Urquhart S&D State House Augusta 12^th June 1793 Sir, Our frontier settlers still continues in a state of alarm, for notwithstanding the waters still remain high, the reports from Indian murders and depredations of every kind are of so short duration, that the Inhabitants have not a moments security. The number of militia drawn into actual service in consequence of the