Letter from Georgia Governor Telfair to Secretary of War Henry Knox on the Creek barbarities and additional troops: Page #1

Letter from Georgia Governor Telfair to Secretary of War Henry Knox on the Creek barbarities and additional troops: Page #1

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182. at or near the Scull shoals of Oconee in Greene County on Monday last about 10 oClock in the morning. Taken from the files of the Executive this 29th April 1792 Attest W. Urquhart, SLD. State House, Augusta 8 .^th May 1793. Sir, Such is the havock and carnage making by the Savage, in every direction on our frontier, that retaliation by open War, becomes the only result, the horrid barbarities committed (some recitals of which the enclosures contain) have impelled me to cause the additional aid of six troops of horse to be drawn into service to range on the frontier and also to establish a Camp at Shoulderbone to consist of three battalions companies, and I have direc- ted a General Officer to repair to the said Camp, to be repair to the said Camp to be reinforced as circumstances may require. the late respite is only to be attributed to the heighth of the waters, and so soon as they subside, I have nothing to expect but an immediate renewal of the like barbarities, every measure in my power to repel and annoy shall be taken, and as far as means will extend shall be carried into effect. Let no idea of peace so far amuse as to divert the necessary and immediate preparations for War, every information you may receive tending thereto, must proceed from ignorance or danger. the field is now taken -- the people must be protected, and a failure