valuable purposes. Should this be approved I hope you will lose no time in giving me directions, as the sooner such voluntary hostages are drawn from the nation the better. From some recent accounts it would appear that the Upper Creeks are much alarmed on account of a large body of White people from the Western waters having joined the Chickasaws with intention to attack them. What foundation there is for such report I know not, but the Creeks go so far as to say that the Chickasaws are furnished with some pieces of Artillery from Governor Blounts territory. The enclosed copy of a talk sent to Major Gaither by M^r Barnard on this business may serve further to explain this matter. I do not hear of any mischief being done by the Indians since my last. As I have engaged to meet the Indians by the 10^th Instant I cannot wait much longer for the Governors arrival, should I be able to see him before my departure I will inform with the result of our meeting. With all possible respect. I remain yours &c (Inclosure) A talk from the heads of the Upper and lower Creeks, by order of the Mad Dog of the Tuchabachees, given out in the Cussetah or square, at a meeting of a number of the lower Creeks this twenty first day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety three - to be forwarded to his Excellency General Washington President of the United States. We the heads of the Creek nation wish to acquaint Your Excellency, that we are just informed by a runner of our people, from the Chickasaw nation, that there were some of the Chickasaws just arrived who had been holding talks with Governor Blount - they came to Cumberland and said that they had agreed with Governor Blount to send six thousand men to station at the Muscle Shoals on the Cherokee river, and that the Cumberland people had agreed to send five hundred more men to join the Chickasaws, to station at a fort in the Chickasaw nation; and that the Cumberland people had already sent three pound Guns to said fort; and that the five hundred men were to be there in a short time. We the heads of the Creek nation wish to hear from General Washington whether it is his desire that Governor Blount and those Cumberland people should go on as they are or whether or not they are people that are under the government of General Washington or not - thus We the heads of the Creek nation would wish to know as quick as possible. We the heads of the Upper and lower Creeks wish to inform the President of the United States that we have given out talks to put a total stop to all our young people going out to commit any hostilities against Cumberland or Kentucky - therefore if it is the wish of the President of the United States, that his people and the red people should be at peace, we hope he will immediately restrain Governor Blount and his people, from joining the Chickasaws - its not that we are in great dread of the consequences of those proceedings, but as we have had a long wish to settle all disputes we hope that our friend and father General Washington still remains in the same opinion. We the heads of the lower Creeks likewise wish to inform the heads of Georgia that if they still have a wish to settle matters with the red people we hope they will on seeing this immediately send to Governor Blount to restrain his people till his Excellency General Washington's pleasure is known. Cussetahs July 21^st 1793. Interpreted by J. Barnard. James Seagrove Esq^r to the Secretary of War Dated at Augusta 5^th September 1793. Sir, The enclosed is a duplicate of what I had the honor of writing on the 3^d instant - Last evening his excellency Governor Telfair arrived in town and this morning Cap^t Freeman and myself waited on him. I acquainted the Governor that I was so far on my way to the Rock landing, and from thence into the Creek nation, in compliance with your order of the 10^th Instant. That I had waited on him to give such information as in my power; and to obtain some idea of the plans already adopted, or in contemplation by his Excellency relative to the Creek nation. I wish I had it in my power to say that I received an explicit or satisfactory answer. All I could obtain from him was that an expedition was determined on against the unfriendly Creek towns - that it was a measure much desired by the people of this State - that the depredations of the Creek had