Extract of a letter from his Excellency, Edward Telfair to the Secretary of War — dated 8^th May 793 — The Indian barbarities recently committed have compelled " me to cause the additional aid of two Troops of horse to be drawn " into service to range on the frontiers and also to establish a " Camp at Shoulderbone to assist of their battalion companies " and I have directed a Genl Officer to repair to the said Camp " to be confered as circumstances may require" — Extract of a letter to his Excellency Edward Telfair from the Honble Henry Knox Secty of War Dated June 10^th 1793 — " Your letter of the 8^th of May has been received and " submitted to the President of the United States " The State of Georgia being invaded or in eminent danger " thereof the measures taken by your Excellency may be considered " as indispensible. You are the Judge of the degree of danger " and of its duration and will undoubtedly proportion the " defence to exigencies — The President however expresses his " confidence that as soon as the danger which has induced " you to call out so large a body of the Troops, shall hav