May 27, 1793 Sir/ You will order out 9 Men out of your Company and command them yourself as Mounted Infantry for a tour not exceeding fifteen days with fifteen days provision to rendezvous at your own House on friday the 31 ^inst equipt as the law directs, in order to pursue the Indians that has done the Mischief on the waters of Clinch. You will range the Cumberland Mountains, or where you may think convenient; observing not to cross the [undecipherable: probable reading "Holstin"] to the South Side agreeable to the Order of the Governor — James White Capt. Beard Note — If any of your men should not be able to furnish provision, you will furnish at the expence of the Governor — [Copy] Knoxville May 31— Sir/ Since giving you the order to scour the Mountains with fifty Men in search of the Indians who committed the late Murders and depredations on Bull Run and Flat Creek, I have been informed that