Extract of a letter from Lieutenant Sedgwick Commandant of Fort Mathews. "I have this day received information that M^r Seagrove is to meet some Indians on the Oakmulgee for to treat with them, and that Capt Williamson with 50 or 60 militia was to cafe last evening with an intention to surprise them if possible." — I certify that the above extract is taken accurately from a letter of Lieut Sedgwick Commandant of Fort — Mathews, directed to me as commanding officer at this post, dated September 16^th and received the 17^th inst — which I shewed to James Seagrove Esq^r superintendent of Indian affairs. Given under my hand this 25^th day of Sept^r 1793 at Fort Fidius. (Signed) R. B^t Roberts, Cap^t 2^d Sub Legⁿ United States and Commandant --- James Seagrove to Governor Telfair. Fort Fidius on the Oconee 22^d September 1793 Sir, This morning an express arrived to me from the Creek nation with dispatches. The letters and talks which I have received contain such expressions of friendship and ardent desire in the principal characters of rising men among them, as leaves not a doubt in my breast that they anxiously wish for a peace with this country on terms of equal justice. This your Excellency knows to be the wish of the general government; and I fondly hope that of my fellow Citizens in Georgia. I shall leave this tomorrow for the Creek towns, where every thing in my power shall be done to obtain full satisfaction for injuries done this Country, and to establish a firm and honorable peace. This I send by express for the purpose of making your excellency acquainted with the present situation of Indian affairs and to request that you will without delay put a stop to all armed parties going from this State crossing the boundary line for any purpose whatever. I am sorry to be under the necessity of informing your excellency that since I had the honor of addressing you on the 6^th instant on the subject of Indian affairs that there hath several parties of horsemen from this frontier crossed the line with intention (as is said) of going into the Indian Towns. I will not allow myself to suppose that after the communications I have had with your Excellency on this very point, that it is possible you should have had any knowledge of such parties going out, or should have had advice of the same from you. Should such practice be continued from your State whilst I am in the nation, and any injury is done a Creek Indian the consequence will be, that every white person belonging to these United States, in the power of the Savages, will fall a sacrifice; and a general Indian War brought on this Country. To prevent which, as well as the horrid reflection it would bring on our government I doubt not your Excellency will use every exertion in your power.