since of the President on the subject of peace or War shall be attended on my part. The Arms and ammunition mentioned in your last are not yet arrived. It is my very earnest desire that two thousand stand of Arms in addition to those expected, with a proportionable quantity of ammunition be forwarded as early as possible. I have the honor to be Your most obedient servant, Edw^d Telfair The Secretary of War --- Savannah. 29^th April 1793. Sir, Since my last to you dated the 22^d instant I have received the intelligence contained in the enclosed extracts &^c From the deposition of Benjamin Harrison and Francis Leigh, and from the information of Joseph Duble from which there is little expectation of avoiding a general War, with the Creeks and Cherokees. Blood has been spilt in every direction on the extended frontier of this state, and one man killed in the State of South Carolina. I have directed fourteen block houses to be erected, each to be garrisoned by one noncommissioned Officer, two Sergeants, and nineteen privates. Their stations extend from St. Marys river to the river Tugale, which will the federal stations may serve as a temporary defence adding theretle troops of horse to answer the [undecipherable]