Georgia Washington County Personally appeared before me Henry Barrel and being duly sworn, sayeth, that on the evening of the 1^st inst there were two horses stolen from Captain Stocks volunteer troop, stationed at the Long Bluff, on the second the Captain with 13 men; this deponent being one, crossed the Oconee river and pursued on the trail of horses And by the appearance of the signs, there were four persons, we came up with them on the bank of the Okmulgee and discovered three Indians, fired on them the fire was returned — Captain Stokes rushed upon them and took the ground immediately, by the appearance of blood two were mortally wounded and one certainly killed in the river, we recovered our own two horses and one other, three rifles and one smooth bore Gun, with sundry other articles and returned to our Station without damage except hunger and fatigue. Henry Barrel Sworn before me September 6^th 1793. Jared Irwin J.P. Taken from the files of the Executive. Attest. W^m Urquhart, S.E.D. Extract of a letter from General Twiggs, dated the 4^th inst. "The Indians came to a M^r Baits in Green County and plundered his house of a number of Articles, and to a M^r Hills and took and destroyed every thing in his house, and took off out of the neighbourhood 10 head of horses" "Colonel Melton pursued them over the Okmulgee the