Extract of letter from Captain Jonas Fauche from the files of executive, Georgia Governor Telfair, reporting on killings of Creek warriors, taking of prisoners
Document 1793In this extract addressed to Georgia Governor Telfair, executive files, Captain Jonas Fauche reports on the Indian theft of horses, killing of Creek warriors, the taking of prisoners, discovery of scalps, and a report that warriors have gone to Cumberland.
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September 26th 1793. Green County
I have this day returned from a tour to the Creek nation, have burnt the huts of one town, killed six Warriors the number wounded is uncertain, and took eight prisoners, which I now have at the town of Greensborough.
I now want the result of your excellency respecting the prisoners, and request that they may be kept at some interior place as the prejudices of the people on the frontier may operate materially against them. The want of arms ammunition &c may and I believe will unless soon remedied be the cause of the frontier in this quarter being evacuated. You will receive the particulars from Brigadier General Jared Irwin.
I am with respect, your Excellency,
Most obedient servant
William Melton, Lt Colo
1st Regt G County.
[Taken from the files of the Executive.
Attest
Wm Urquhart, S.E.D.]
Extract of a Letter from Captain Jonas Fauche dated September 28th 1793.
The 7th Instant the Indians stole some horses and shot at the owners as they were following the trail, and killed one of their Horses. — We started from the oak moulge the 17th instt and the 21st by two in the morning we discovered that the trail had led us to a town covered by a large river at least 500 yards wide.
We killed but six warriors, and we know nothing about the wounded as it was not quite light — we took eight women and children prisoners, which were found chiefly in the two houses first taken — we found four scalps in the town house, and the prisoners declare they were taken last summer upon the Oconee and St Marys rivers. The prisoners say also, great many Warriors are gone to Cumberland, and that one hundred and three of them were in the town when we stormed it.
[Taken from the files of the Executive.
Attest.
Wm Urquhart, S.E.D.]
The foregoing communications from the Governor of Georgia to the Secretary of War, are true copies from the files of the War Office.
Jno Stagg, Junr
Chief Clerk.
Type
Extract of Letter
Description
In this extract addressed to Georgia Governor Telfair, executive files, Captain Jonas Fauche reports on the Indian theft of horses, killing of Creek warriors, the taking of prisoners, discovery of scalps, and a report that warriors have gone to Cumberland.
Date
09/28/1793
Author
Sent from
Georgia
Document number
1793092890050
Notable persons
Georgia Governor Telfair
Captain Jonas Fauche
Creek nation
Creek Warriors
Creek prisoners
W. Urquhart
Notable locations
Georgia
Cumberland
Augusta Georgia
Creek Nation
Oconee River
St Mary's River
Notable items
horses
scalps
prisoners

