Extracts from depositions indicating likelihood of general war, construction and garrisoning of blockhouses, and measures taken to secure help from Governor of South Carolina: Page #1

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since of the President on the subject of [peace?]___ shall be attended to on my part. The Arms and ammunition mentioned in your last are not yet arrived. It is my very earnest desire that two thousand stand of Arms in addition to these respected, with a proportionable quantity of ammunition be forwarded as early as pofsible. I have the honor to be Sir your most obedient servant, Edw'd. Telfair

The Secretary of War}

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Savannah 29 .^th April 1793.

Sir,

Since my last to you dated the 22 .^d instant I have received the intelligence contained in the enclosed extracts,, viz

From the deposition of Benjamin Harrison and Francis Pugh, and from the information of Joseph Dabbs from which there is little expectation of avoiding a general War, with the Creeks and Cherokees. Blood has been spilt in every direction on the extended frontier of this state, and one man killed in the State of South Carolina.

I have directed fourteen block houses to be erected, each to be garrisoned by one Commissioned Officer, two Searjeants, and seventeen privates - those stations extend from S .^t Mary's river to the river Tergalo, which with the federal stations may serve as a temporary defense adding thereto troops of horse to act on the year