[Docket notation, written diagonally: [undecipherable] from H. [undecipherable] / 30. April. 1795] War Office, April 30^th 1795 Sir I inclose this to have acknowledged the receipt of your letter of March 10^th, written to the French privateer la Citoyen de Marseille, & that of March 13^th relating to the defence of your frontiers & the past expenditures of South Carolina in that service. — The urgent business that was pending when your letter of the 13^th was received, prevented its being presented to the President, who was preparing for a journey to Virginia. Nor was it yet returned. But I find that in consequence of the representation of Governor Pinckney on the 30^th of September 1792 accompanied with letters from Gen^l. Pickens and Col. Anderson, the measures he deemed necessary for guarding your frontiers at the Cherokee place, were sanctioned by the President of the United States in a letter from the Secretary of War on the 27^th of October following. The expenses incurred subsequently in the necessary protection of your frontiers, must undoubtedly be reimbursed by the United States. But for this purpose the account kept with the vouchers must be transmitted to this office. The account & vouchers for the [undecipherable] from their commencement in July 1792, I shall also be expected to forward at the [undecipherable] time; for these & [undecipherable] authorized by the General Government, yet of course to be indispensably necessary. I do not see why the expence should not be charged to the United States. The company of militia now deemed necessary, agreeable to the report of Colonel Anderson furnished on the opinions of the field officers who act [undecipherable] therein, will, I am persuaded, be supported by the United States with the ready consent of the President. The caution & deliberation directed by you and pursued by Colonel Anderson in making the [undecipherable] is an entire [undecipherable] & the [undecipherable] of the measure. I hope however that it will very soon be manifested that these guards may be disbanded. From the letters of Mr. [undecipherable: Seagrove] there appears to be a better disposition in the Creeks & a firm determination of the Chiefs to collect and restore the negroes and other property which their Warriors have taken from the frontier people. There was to be a general meeting of the Chiefs of the Upper Towns on the 1^st [undecipherable], to consult and decide upon the demands contained in his talks relative to negroes & other property as well as the citizens whom the Creeks kept in captivity. — Mr. Seagrove's last letter was dated the 19^th ult.; in which he says that no mischief had been done by the Creeks on the frontiers of Georgia, since his return [to] which which I think was in December last. — The certificate of Mr. [undecipherable] of 2000 dollars advanced by South Carolina for the purposes of a treaty with the southern Indians, pursuant to a resolution of Congress passed the 26^th of October 1787, I have handed to the Secretary of the Treasury. If it was not comprehended in my settlement made between the United States & South Carolina, it will be reimbursed without delay. From the tenor of the certificate I am led to suppose this money has never been expended; & that it now lies in the Branch Bank of the United States at Charleston. — I am with great respect Sir your most Ob'dent S^t Timothy Pickering The Governor of South Carolina (Copy)