Letter from Georgia Governor Telfair to Secretary of War Henry Knox on Seagrove's accounts, Creek disavowals, President Washington's policies, and arms and ammunition: Page #1

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Savannah 22 .^d April 1793 Sir Some late accounts received from the Southern regarding the Creek Indians would appear some what flattering were it not well understood that the policy of those people is to disavow as a nation all murders and depredations. M .^r Seagrove has communicated that a promise has been made by some of the head men to surrender the murderers and return the captured property, those are measures not to be expected, perhaps some part of the property may be returned, and if so, it will extend to my most sanguine expectations.

The President will no doubt take a serious[undecipherable] of the situation of the frontier inhabitants of this State and afford speedy relief either by the adoption of measures for negociation or by coercive aims to compell them to a due observance of amity, and such is the aspect of European affairs that it may perhaps be necessary to have reference to them in [undecipherable] the immediate system of policy with the Savages. Be the result what it may, in due observance of the sence