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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 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^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 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