conduct of the frontier inhabitants of this State. I mentioned to you in my last that parties were preparing to cross the Oconee for the purpose of breaking up the Indian towns, It is now reduced to a certainty that one of these parties has crossed the river four days ago, about twenty five miles below this post at a place called Davis's Bluff. It is to be hoped that they may be prevented from doing any mischief. M^r Seagrove will communicate to you fully upon the present State of Indian affairs — Agreeably to your instructions I have requested Maj^r. Gaither to appoint some fit person to inspect and muster the Militia. He says that if there are any now in service under the Authority of the United States he is ignorant thereof, and that he cannot feel himself to appoint an inspector until he shall have been regularly and officially informed that those now on this frontier have been called into service in pursuance of such authority. He also informs me that he has written to you upon this subject. I have in several of my letters informed you, that I could not obtain a return from the governor of the force actually employed for the defence of the frontiers although I had repeatedly made application to him for the same, and that no measures had been taken to comply with the orders of the United States relative to the one hundred Cavalry and one hundred Infantry, which he had ordered the Governor to bring into service, I should presume that it cannot be the intention of the United States to pay from four to one hundred men, when two hundred are the extent of anthony