Extracts from depositions indicating likelihood of general war, construction and garrisoning of blockhouses, and measures taken to secure help from Governor of South Carolina
Document 1793Georgia Governor Telfair cites some depositions [extracts follow letter] which he says support notion that a general war is imminent with Creeks and Cherokees. Is building and garrisoning block houses. These he considers expedients until the President of United States General George Washington can better provide protection for the settlers. Plans to coordinate with governor of South Carolina William Moultrie and Southwest Territorial Governor Blount for mutual defense, if necessary. Attested by William Urquhart, Benjamin Harrison and Francis Pugh extracts note that Indians shot, scalped and killed William, son of Colonel Pugh, and took Dick a negro owned by Pugh and some horses. From Joseph Tabbs of Franklin County. He saw General Clarke at town of Washington Wilkes County, and from him heard of six murdered by Indians near Scull Shoals near Oconee in Greene County
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