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State House, Augusta, 2^d October, 1793. Sir, The enclosed documents will give you the needful information respecting one of the inimical Creek Towns, it will be without need to use any efforts to prevent the Citizens from going in quest of their property. I am hopeful of having it in my power to give you a more minute detail of the event. The prisoners are directed to this place where they shall be treated with humanity, and await the result of a treaty and exchange for our unfortunate captives now in that nation. I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient Servant Edw.^d Telfair. Secretary of War. To the Head men and Warriors of Donally's Town, Flint River. September 22^d 1793. Warriors — Your continued depredations upon the property and persons of the settlements where I command, has forced me at last to follow your latest trail up to your own hunting grounds and habitations; I could no longer remain idle and see the people under my care suffer [undecipherable: probable reading "miserably"] losses of property and relations. Warriors. You do love to War with us at the same time that you deceive our father at New York with peace talks, and you give your hand up to the elbow to his emissaries whilst you keep the hatchet lifted over the heads of those of his children who are your neighbours. Warriors. How shall we any longer repose any confidence in your protestations of friendship and peaceable disposition towards us, whilst a part of your nation have been making treaties of peace with us, and the other was ever busy in shedding our blood on our land. Warriors. Our father of New York has been very good to you and in the time of your need supplied you with bread, clothing and tools to work your land, and at the same time you were lurking about our farms, carrying all you could steal from his children, and afterwards killed and scalped all you could of them. Warriors. I am proud to think you mistake our father of New York's bounty to you for the fear of your fighting his Children, and that you think the more mischief you do to them the more wide his hands will be opened to you. Warriors. Ever since the English War, our Father of New York has kept our hands tied up to keep from ever retaliating the many wrongs we suffered from you every spring, and you know no father that

Type

Letterbook Copy

Description

LtCol. William Melton informs the Creek headmen of Donally Town that, under his authority, 8 Indian women and children are taken prisoner. Melton states further that the prisoners will be delivered into the hands of the Governor of Georgia, whom he expects will then give the Creeks, "a new lesson of humanity."

Date

09/22/1793

Author

Lieutenant Colonel William Melton

Recipient

Creek Chiefs

Sent from

Greene County

Repository

National Archives and Records Administration

Collection

Third Congress: Transcribed Confidential Reports and Other Communications Transmitted by the Secretary of War to the House of Representatives, 3d

Document number

1793092290055

Page start

200

Note

Enclosed in Telfair to Knox, 10/02/1793.This journal is enclosed in a statement relative to the South Western frontiers, as connected with the state of Georgia and the Creek Indians, the south Western territory of the United States and the Cherokees submitted to the House of Representatives on December 4, 1793. This document is an integral part of [Public Reports] and other communications of the Secretary at War, 12/99/1793.

Notable persons

William Melton

First Regiment of Greene County

Notable locations

Greene County