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May 27. 1793 Sir

You will order out of Men out of your Company and command them yourself as Mounted Infantry for a town not exceeding fifteen days with fifteen days provision to rendezvous at your own House on Friday the 8. Just equip as the law directs, in order to pursue the Indians that has done the Mischief on the waters of [undecipherable]. You will range the Cumberland Mountains, or where you may think convenient; observing not to cross the [undecipherable] to the South Side agreeable to the order of the Governor -- James White

Capt. Baird Note-- If any of your men should not be able to furnish provision, you will furnish at the expense of the Governor. -- Copy 1

Knoxville May 31 -- Sir

Since giving you the order to scan the Mountains with fifty men in search of the Indians who committed the late Murders and depredations on Bull run and Flat Creek, I have been informed that