failure in this juncture will affect the operations of Government in a serious degree. The Agents for supplies has afforded much relief, by furnishing the men called into service; and on a continuation of such supplies, will depend the fate of Georgia. I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servant Edw.^d Telfair The Secretary of War, Extract from the depositions of Michael Cupps and Nancy Smith, taken Elihu Lyman Esqre, one of the Justices of the peace for the County of Greene, dated 23^d. April 1793. "Michael Cupps, was near the Oconee river on Monday the 22^d instant, and heard a gun fired, and saw about thirty Indians firing upon and Massacreing Richard Thresher, two children and a negro Wench; at the same time the wife of the deceased with an infant, ran and leaped into the river, the Indians firing upon her as she fled - the woman was found alive scalped, wounded in both her thighs, her right breast with balls and stabbed in her left breast with a knife, her left arm cut nearly off, as is supposed with a Tomohawk, of which wounds she died in about twenty four hours, the Infant was found drowned, without any marks of violence upon it. Nancy Smith deposed, the number of Indians was in her opinion nearly one hundred" hundred" Taken from the files of the Executive Attest W. Urquhart S.E.D. Extract of a Letter from Andrew Pickens Esquire to General Clarke. Hopewell 28^th April 1793 "I received this morning by express from a friend, that the whole of the Creek nation except the Cusetas had declared War against the United States, that John Galphin, with five hundred Warriors, had set out about sixteen days ago to join the Seminoles and was to fall on the southern parts of Georgia; but my information leads me to believe that they intend to make a blow att along the frontier of Georgia and this State." Taken from the files of the Ex. Dept. Attest W. Urquhart S.E.D. State House, Augusta 12^th June 1793 Sir, Our frontier settlers still continue in a state of alarm, for notwithstanding the waters still remain high, the operations from Indian murders and depredations of every kind are of so short duration that the Inhabitants have not a moment's security. The number of militia drawn into actual service in consequence of the