[123] woman that was taken is the White Lieutenants own relation and wife to a head man of the town: they say there are two women and children lost, which if thine are but right ruined in the others must have been killed and perhaps burned in the houses; you can enquire into this matter as there are certainly that number missing. I have been afflicted with a third day Ague, and from a complaint I never had before in this Country; I was very bad all last night, and am hardly able to sit up to write, my head is so giddy; therefore I shall refer you to Mr. [undecipherable] for further information and remain with wishing you health, and remain Dear Sir Your &c Fort Fidins 21^st Octo. 1793 Cpy James Seagrove, Agent Ind. Affairs Copy of a letter from Tim Barnard to James Seagrove. Flint River 18^th October 1793 Dear Sir, After I had finished my dispatches to you yesterday late in the evening a man I had out to the Ufcohaw arrived after dark informing me that the Warrior King of the Cussetahs had returned from the Upper Creeks Tuckabatchee where he had a full meeting with the Upper Creeks, and that all the towns in that quarter were fully determined to do every thing they could to settle a peace with the white people and that to show their sincerity on the morrow the White Lieutenant and several more of the heads were making ready to come down