Deposition Michael Cupps, Nancy Smith on Indian killings Greene County Georgia: Page #1 Original title: 1letterbook/NOP01_185.jpg Protection: Open to all Expiration: Never Status: Approved Mark this revision as complete Cancel Deposition Michael Cupps, Nancy Smith on Indian killings Greene County Georgia: Page #1 Go full screenExit full screen Layout Reset ---- Extract from the deposition of Michael Cupps and Nancy Smith, taken Elihu Lyman Esquire, one of the Justices of the peace for the County of Greene, dated 23<sup>d</sup> April 1793 "Michael Cupps, was near the Oconee river on Monday "the 22<sup>d</sup> 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 batts 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 evidence upon it. Nancy Smith "deposed the number of Indians was in her opinion nearly one hundred