happy to renew them, being with all due respect Your most obedient S[...] Fort Fidius on the Oconee 17^th Sep^t 1793 Sir, Since writing you from Augusta on the 6^th Inst I arived at this place in company with Colonel Gaither on the 9^th. I could plainly discover before I left Augusta, that the haveing of peace which Seems going on, was very disagreeable to many men in that metropolis, and was informed that I should met with insults and perhaps worse if I attempted going to this place. I heeded all this as an idle story, however when we had reached within thirty two miles of this place, we were not a little surprised to see Cap^tn Dickenson with a party of federal troops meeting us. They were sent as you will observe by the enclosed paper, it being the opinion of a council of all the officers at this Garrison for our protection, they having received alarming accounts respecting us, especially myself, of whom it was said roundly that parties were out wayplaying the roads to shoot us; we did not meet with any interruption, and got safe here. From undoubted information which I have every day received since being here, and from the conduct of the generality of these frontier people, I find that it is a matter determined on by them that peace with the Creek Indians shall not take place on any terms whatever. That in order to prevent any meeting the Indians, parties of militia are constantly kept out between the