Report from Fort Williamson on matters with the Indians and the Spanish
Document 1797Report on affairs on the frontier in the region of Fort Williamson, including a report of the surveying of the line of the U. S. Spanish border and the evacuation of Spanish forts and some current events among the Creeks. Hawkins is in want of money. Mentions United States government stipends to be given the Chiefs. Hawkins notes the he is satisfied with the work of Rogers. Some men in Hancock County wounded an Indian Chief on Indian land up the Little River. Mentions experiment of hiring a farmer to conduct introduction to the plough, farming. There has been successful raising of corn, although the season has been too dry.
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