122. at or near the Shall shoals of Oconee on Greene County on Monday last about 10 clock in the morning. Taken from the files of the Executive this 29^th April 1795 Attest W Urquhart S E D. State House. Augusta 8^th May 1795. 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 inclosures 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 Cantpmt Mountsboro to consist of three batallions companies, and I have directed a General Officer to repair to the said camp, to be repaired to the said camp to be reinforced, as circumstances may require. The late repulse is only to be attributed to the height 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 array shall be taken, and as far as means will admit shall be carried into effect. I see no idea of peace so far remote as to divert the necessary and immediate preparations for War, any information you may recive tending thereto, must proceed from ignorance or design. the field is now taken — the people must be protected, misfortune