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-Extract of a Letter from Andrew Pickens
-Esquire to General Clarke
-Hopewell 28<sup>th</sup> April 1793
-"I received this morning by express from a friend
-that the whole of the Creek nation except the [undecipherable] had declared
-War against the United States that John [Golphin] with five hun
-dred Warriors, had set out about sixteen days ago to join the
-Seminoles and was to fall on the southern parts of Georgia but my
-information leads me to believe that they intend to make a [undecipherable]
-along the frontier of Georgia and this State.
-Taken from the files of the Ex. Dept.
-Attest
-W. Urquhart S.E.D.
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-State House, Augusta, 12<sup>th</sup> June 1793
-Sire
-Our frontier settlers still continue in a state of
-alarm for notwithstanding the waters still remain high, the refia-
-tions from Indian murders and depredations of every kind are of
-so short duration that the Inhabitants have not a moments security.
-The number of militia drivers with actual service in consequence of
-the