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 directed 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 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 depositions of Michael Bupps and Nancy Smith, taken Elihu Lyman Esquire, one of the Justices of the peace for the County of Greene, dated 23^d. April 1793. " Michael Bupps, 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 Thresher, two children and a negro Wench; at the same time the wife of the deceased with an infant, 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 breast with balls and stabbed in her left breast with a knife, her left arm cut nearly off, as is supposed with a Tomohawk, of which wounds she died in about twenty four hours, the Infant was found drowned, without any marks of violence upon it. Nancy Smith deposed, the number of Indians was in her opinion nearly one hundred