[Abstract of letter to Gen. Blount 14^th May 93 His Enclosures] [May 18] [undecipherable] [Defence of the frontier] Knoxville June 11. 1793. [undecipherable] to Secretary — [undecipherable] that a general war will ensue the — [undecipherable] to Secretary [undecipherable] June: Large [undecipherable] out of [undecipherable] Calls, [undecipherable] have some [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] to be perused by — July 19^th [undecipherable] to S [undecipherable] authority on [undecipherable] stations on Tenn [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Indiana [undecipherable] Clinch [undecipherable] his [undecipherable] attacked [undecipherable] his [undecipherable] house [undecipherable] his wife & children [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] his [undecipherable] house of a [undecipherable] family [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] house [undecipherable] his [undecipherable] 12 miles later [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Secretary of War [undecipherable] July [undecipherable] communication his [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the frontier Letter from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] of the frontier District [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] an amount in the 10 [undecipherable] entitled Recruit to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] giving an amount in the 10 [undecipherable] entitled [undecipherable] on [undecipherable] frontier [undecipherable] from 100 to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that the [undecipherable] County [undecipherable] that it was to [undecipherable] in a [undecipherable] way; that militia [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the Government [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the frontier in [undecipherable] [undecipherable], that [undecipherable] an [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] his [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] his [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] now in [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] and the may [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Letter [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] many [undecipherable] have [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] 21 [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [All letters No. 152 [undecipherable] under date of 1793 [undecipherable]] [undecipherable] Indians at that time from [undecipherable] Green County houses owned by John and [undecipherable] Black on the North [undecipherable] frontier for the distance of at least 200 miles [undecipherable] to Secretary, it was Dated [undecipherable] No. 25 or [undecipherable] enclosing a Report of [undecipherable] No. 25 [undecipherable] Respecting his [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of Indiana that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of Knox and on 25 [undecipherable] attended General [undecipherable] [undecipherable] also giving an account of the Duly [undecipherable] depredations of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of Indiana in the Frontier, and stating on [undecipherable] a party of 26 United [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] building and [undecipherable] his walls [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] where the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] had been in perfect safety B. to [undecipherable] No. 21 Stating the unexpected [undecipherable: depulsion] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Indians [undecipherable] across into their towns by order of J. Smith and his [undecipherable] oppression that [undecipherable] of a second effect, for the moment [undecipherable] that time B. to [undecipherable] October 12^th Enclosing J. Smith's order [undecipherable] this country— the Good [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] service and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that the Country must be Defended in the [undecipherable] manner the Cour— [undecipherable] to Secretary of War [undecipherable] October 1793 [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the Indians. The [undecipherable] situation of the Frontier, and the [undecipherable] of that Country at the [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] his [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] of September his Remarks on the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] to the Frontier, and stating that it was the ground [undecipherable] of our present [undecipherable] Secretary Daniel Smith Communication to Secretary Knox [undecipherable] June 1793. Stating the Conduct of [undecipherable] band, who had [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of Guilford & [undecipherable]. July 17 June — Stating that from every information [undecipherable] from the bottom, that a general war [undecipherable] ensue — 22 June. giving an account of the Deputation Councils, this [undecipherable] appears [undecipherable] on the 19^th [undecipherable] instant July 19^th. Stating the Depredations committed — This is now [undecipherable] to have been [undecipherable] of [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] the war [undecipherable] and 2 field and on the 23^rd [undecipherable] June [undecipherable] of an attack on [undecipherable] houses his wife & children, [undecipherable] all on the 4^th July [undecipherable] triple [undecipherable] committee at Birds Station [undecipherable] therewith July 27. Stating his [undecipherable] of Calling [undecipherable] Lewis [undecipherable] 150 or 180 men to reconnoiter & protect the Frontier [undecipherable] [All letters No. 152 [undecipherable] under date of 1793, [undecipherable]]