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 humble servant
 James Seagrove, Agent
-to his Excellency Governor Telfair, dated,
-August 3.<sup>d</sup>  1793
-Sir
-By the enclosed extract of a letter from the
-Secretary of the War department, your excellency will perceive I
-have received positive instructions from the President of the United
-States, to go into the Creek nations as soon as I shall have made [undecipherable]
-arrangements for my personal safety. This measure is considered and
-[undecipherable] as the only one likely to restore and preserve peace and harmony
-with the tribes, to effect which in the present conjuncture of affairs
-is a matter of the highest importance to the United States, as well as
-to this State.
-In consequence of these printed instructions, I do [undecipherable]
-myself the honor to inform your excellency that I have [undecipherable] to inform
-the Chiefs and [undecipherable] of the friendly terms of my intentions
-that