happy to renew them, being with all due respect Your most obedient &^c Fort Fidius on the Oconee 17^th Sep^t 1793. Sir, Since writing you from Augusta on the 6 Inst^t I arrived 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 I was going on, was very disagreeable to many men in that metropolis, and was informed that I should meet with insults and perhaps even if I attempted going to this place. I treated 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^t Dickinson 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 way-laying the roads to shoot me, 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 those 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 leaving the