[395] 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 Oekmulje for to treat with them, and that Capt Williamson with 50 or 60 militia was to esc[undecipherable] last evening with an intention to compan[undecipherable] 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 22^d day of Sep^t 1793 at Fort Fidius. (Signed) R. B^r Roberts, Cap^t 2^d [undecipherable] United States and Commandant James Seagrove to Governor Telfair. Fort Fidius on the Oconee 22^d September 1793 Sir This morning an express came to me from the [undecipherable: 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 being 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. Thus your Excellency knows to be the wish of the general government; and I [undecipherable: firmly]