spur of the occasion: I shall follow this plan of operation until mea[...] be taken by the President for the better protection of the unfortunate [...] settlers on the exposed frontier. If I find the pressure becomes great th[...] opposition must keep pace with the several emergencies. I shall make the necessary communications to the Governor of the state of South Carolina, in order to obtain aid, as I have every reason to hope that provident measures have been taken to that effect. Should general hostilities continue it will be well to give Governor Blount the need- ful instructions to cause a co operation on his part. I have the honor to be. Sir, your most obedient Servant. Edw^d Telfair. The Secretary of War } Extracts from the deposition of Benjamin Herron and Francis Pugh of Washington County. "On the 18^th April, the Indians killed William [...] the son of Colonel Pugh and had taken Dick a negroe man of Col. Pugh [...] and shot said William Pugh through the body and two scalps were [...] taken off his head. there is some linen missing." Extracts from the Information of Joseph Talbs of Franklin County. "That on Tuesday (23^d April) he saw General Clarke at the town of Washington, Wilkes County; who informed [...] him that six persons were murdered by a party of Indians at at or near the Skull Shoals of Oconee in Greene County on Monday last about 10 Oclock in the morning. Taken from the files of the Executive this 29^th April, 1793. Attest W. Urquhart, S.E.D. State House, Augusta 8^th May 1793. Sir Such is the havock and carnage making by the Savage, in every direction on our frontier, that retaliation by open War, becomes the only result, the horrid barbarities committed (some recitals of which the enclosures contain) have impelled me to cause the additional aid of six troops of horse to be drawn into service to range on the frontier; and also to establish a Camp at Shoulderbone to consist of three battalions companies, and I have direc- ted a General Officer to repair to the said Camp, to be repair to the said Camp to be reinforced, as circumstances may require: the late respite is only to be attributed to the heighth of the waters, and so soon as they subside, I have nothing to expect but an immediate renewal of the like barbarities, every measure in my power to repel and annoy shall be taken, and as far as means will extend shall be carried into effect. Let no idea of peace so far amuse as to divert the necessary and immediate preparations for War, every information you may receive tending thereto, must proceed from ignorance or design: the field is now taken — the people must be protected, and a failure