Alarming & Melancholy Account of Creek Depredations
Item
Type
Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Title
Alarming & Melancholy Account of Creek Depredations
Description
Seagrove provides a detailed account of depredations apparently committed by renegade Lower Creeks.
year created
1793
month created
03
day created
17
author
sent from location
St. Mary's
recipient
in collection
note
Cited in Seagrove to Knox, 04/19/1793, and 06/10/1793.
cited note
Cited document addressed to the War Office
notable person/group
Henry Knox
James Seagrove
chiefs of the Creek Nation
Lower Creeks
friendly Indian
my neighbors
well mounted volunteers
Robert Seagrove
John Fleming
Daniel Moffit
murderers
Burnt fort on Great Setilla
Major Gaither
federal troops in this State [Georgia]
company of militia horse [cavalry]
the President [Washington]
prisoner
notable location
St. Mary's
Savannah
frontier
Trader's Hill
river St. Mary's
Coleraine
Philadelphia
fort St. Tammany
boundary line from the Altamaha to the St. Mary's
notable item/thing
perfect tranquility
mischief
murder
two thousand pounds sterling in goods
horses
public stores
state of defense
attack from savages
my private dispatches
vessel
early intelligence
affidavits
late outrage
war
notable phrase
There we received the truly alarming and melancholy account of Indians having, on the night of the 11th, broke into the store of Robert Seagrove and killed Mr. John Fleming, the store-keeper, and Mr. Daniel Moffit, a gentleman who came there on business, and that another man was missing...within one mile of a place called Burnt fort on Great Setilla [we] found three men and a girl most inhumanly butchered by the savages
document number
1793031740000
Item sets
Document instances
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| [view document] (0 pages) | [no image] | Collection: Printed Versions | [unknown] |
Document names
| Type | Name | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | James Seagrove | St. Mary's | [n/a] |
| Recipient | Henry Knox | [unknown] | [n/a] |