[407] [undecipherable] of expeditions in different directions to the back towns. I could not for some time allow myself to suppose it possible after the assurances that I made to your excellency to restrain all armed parties from crossing the boundary lines whilst there on the [undecipherable] of peace with the Indians without my being apprizeed thereof from you. But all doubts on this head were soon removed by the expedition which was sent out from this frontier under the command of the Colonels Sevier, Alexander, and Shelton, who crossed the [undecipherable] on or about the 15^th alt. and on the 21^st surprized a small Indian town on the Chotohatchie river called the little [undecipherable: Culfachee?], which town was under the direction of the White Lieutenant who is well known to have ever been friendly to this country. I am informed by one of the Captains that was of the expedition, that the party aforementioned killed and scalped six Indian men and brought off eight female prisoners, plundered and burnt the town which consisted of upwards of ten houses, and on the 26^th of the same month the party returned to Greenborough with the prisoners and plunder. On the 26^th alt. a party of Horsemen in the public service under command of a Captain [undecipherable] crossed the river [undecipherable] three miles above the place with instructions as he declared to prevent any meeting the Indians and to destroy all or any of the friendly Indians he came across — this party went as far as the [undecipherable] but did not meet any Indians. It came [undecipherable] I had received undoubted information of two other parties of ours being out on the Indian territory from this frontier, all of them with avowed intention of opposing any meeting the Indians & effecting a peace. To these things I am sorry to add, that a torrent of unmerited calumny and insolent threats are denounced against me