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SATURDAY, November 2, 1793.
THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE
AND
GAZETTE OF THE STATE.
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GEORGIA.
By bis Excellency EDWARD TELFAIR
Governor and Commander in Chief in and
over the State aforefaid.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS contagious disorders of a fatal
tendency and many abuses and incouveni
encies of a nature not to be tolerated, are appre
hended from the migration of free negroes and
people of colour into this state; aqd as it becomes
necessary that every measure be adopted for the pre
vention of such disorders and abuses: I THERE
FORE issue this my Proclamation requiring all
constituted authorities, corporations, magistrates
and others to exert themselves in causing to be ob
served the several laws of this state which provide
against the introduction of contagious disease, as
well as those for maintaining the peace and good
order of the community, by punilhing and fup
prefling the infractions of people of the aforefaid
defeription. And all military officer's are hereby
required to use the utmost vigilance in keeping a
ItriCt patrol in their refpeCtive diftriCts; having,
hefides the usual objeCts of their duty, a particular ,
attention to the remedy of such evils as may di
sturb the peace and quiet of the citizens of this
state.
GIVEN under my Hand , and the Great Seal
of the [aid State, at the State-House, in
Augusta, this twenty-sixth day of OBobtr,
in the year of our LORD one thousand /even
hundred, ana ninety- three, and in the eighteenth
year of American Independence.
EDWARD TELFAIR.
By his Excellency's Commandy
John Milton, Sec.
GOD save the STATE.
Fort Fidiusy OElober 14, 1793.
Sir,
YESTERDAY a letter was received by Major
Gaither from Mr. Barnard, an extraCt of
which I now enclose your Excellency, by which
you will observe that there is a profpeft of the
Oakfulkees taking fatisfaClion from the Cowetas
for the injuries done the former. I hope time will ,
be given them for the purpose, and that no aft oi
the people of this country may prevent.
I take this opportunity to inform your Excel
lency of the report which is current on this frontier,
and which I have been made acquainted with by
refpeftable men in this neighbourhood, which is,
that a pay of militia are aifcmbling in Waihing
ton and another in Greene county, with
avowed design of expeditions against the Creek
towns; and that they are to go out in fix or eight
days. I will not absolutely fay that this is the case,
but I conceive it will; to apprize you thereof that
not a moment be loft in putting a flop to such un
warrantable doings. I therefore hope your Excel
lency will ifiue your Proclamation, ftridfly prohibit
ing any person from crofting the boundary line
without proper authority—l have not heard of an
Indian being seen or heard of on any part of this
frontier for five weeks past—l hope this will con
tinue to be the case—With refpeil I remain,
Your Excellency’s
Obedient humble fer.vant,
JAMES SEAGROVE, Agent
Indian affair Sy S. D. L ! . S.
His Excellency Governor Tels airy
Georgia.
• Extratt 0/ a letter from Timothy Bernard to Col.
(j&ither •
Flint River , sth5 th October , 1793.
is the fourth day since I arrived at home
X —I have had no news from th,p nation
• * 1
*
GEORGIA.
ff worth relating as yet, but it seems to he the ge
“ neral opinion of the Indians, that those fellows
“ (the Cowetas) that ftolc the horses from the
w frontier will be the obje&s of revenge for thole
“ fellows that loft their lives at the Oakfulkee
“ village by the party that went up there—ls this
“ Ihould be the calc it will have a good effedt.”
Fort Fidiusy 14 thOit. 1793. Taken from
the originaly Js. SEAGROVE.
STATE-HOUSE, Augu/la y Oflober 21,
1 793-
Sir,
YOU are to repair without delay to the frontier,
where you are to gain every information in
your power, refpe&ing the difpofiticn of the ene
my towards the people of this state.
It is to be regietted, that, notwithstanding the
avowed determination of the Preftdent of the
United States to establish a peace with the Creeks,
that overtures from them have not as yet been
fufficiently demonstrated, so, as to give the molt
diftanr hopes of security to the citizens of this
country. — You are to restrain all parties, Ihould
any attempts be made, from crofting the temporary
line, except in pursuit of invaders; and you are
further required to use every incah in your power,
to facilitate the going of James Seagrove, Esquire,
into the heart of the Creek nation without delay ;
by furnilhing cfcorts for a given distance at your
diferetion.
’ lam Sir,
Your most humble servant,
EDWARD TELFAIR.
Major-Gen. Twiggs.
Attejfy j. MERIWETHER, S. E. D.
STATE-HOUSE, Augujla, O ttober
30, 1793-
r JPHE Kindred and Friends of captives now in
X the Creek Nation are fevcrally required to
transmit to the Executive without delay, the names, 1
ages and sex of such captives, with the names of
the towns cr places of their captivity and other
deferiptions of identification, preparatory for 1 heir
redemption. This notification to be published in
the several Gazettes of this state.
Attejly J. MERIWETHER, S. E. D.
STATE-HOUSE, Augujla, October 30,
1 793* . „
ORDERED, That all persons from whom pro
perty have been captured by Creek Indians
since the nth of March last, do without delay
exhibit to the Executive Department, deferiptive
and attested accounts of the property so taken, to
gether with the value thereof. And that this
Order be publillied in the several Gazettes of this
state.
Attejty J. MERIWETHER, S. E. D.
Wilket county, Augufl 29, 1793-
SIR,
SINCE Iconverfed with you concerning the
sundry returns, and received directions rcfpedf
ing General Orders by the Commander in Chief
of this state, that points you to be furnilhed with
them weekly to report on. The line of my duty
has brought the war concern of the people (indi
vidually) within the com pals of my knowledge,
which frefents an opportunity to fend a paragra; h
that will acquaint you with the opinion of my fel
low-citizens' refpefting their fatisfaftion with the
Governor’s regulations that affords the present fat's
ty and welfare of our. liarraiTed brethren on the
{rentiers; and as an adfrefs of thanks, to his Ex
cellency to that effeCl is now circulating in Wilkes
to be signed; let’me inform you that the inciofed
is a copy of that going round in mine, \erhatim
the fame with the rest, and have forwarded a copy
"a
4 *
I in conformity with our thoughts in this county to*
I my colleague Licutcnant-Cclonel Ragland, in El- *
bert county.
I flatter myfelf soon to be able to forward ray* ‘
return*
I am with clue refpcft,
Yours, &c.
SAMUEL ALEXANDER,
Lt. Col. \t)i Regiment, IV. C.
Geo. Elhoiniy Adj. Gen.
The answer to the foregoing letter.
Elbert county, September 22, 1793.
Sir,
I RECEIVED your friendly information dated
the 29th ult. a few days ago, and was yesterday
furnifhed with a petition, addrefled with thanks to
the Governor, signed by the officers in Elbert re
giment and Major Luckie has sent me a like pe
tition from the third regiment in Wilkes, and the
Honorable Brigadier-General Clark, in a note in
a letter after (ignifying his peculiar pleasure to
learn the confidence that prevails between the of
ficers and the gentlemen of arms ? observes that the
officers in Lieutenant-Colonel Bailey’s regiment
have unanimously signed a petition.
As an emulation to be honored with the appro
bation of our fellow citizens is the prevalent im
pulse that reigns in the breast of republican officers*
civil and military in general, and is a paffionwhkk
the ancient people and afi'emblies made it a maxim
to cherilh with the fame care with which they
punilh public crimes; it cannot be deemed a want
of a becoming modesty publicly to acknowledge
myfelf elevated with the mode l am notified in the
fevcral addrefies, and thus feel happy with the op
portunity to confcfs it a mark of the firft magni
tude of honor in my station, to fee myfelf recom
i mended to the Commander in Chief of so refpeft
! able a martial system, as that of ours, by focxcel
! lent military characters, in conjunction with the
! sentiments of officers of a civil institution, that
condtifts us happy and free.
In refpeCt to his Excellency I am not authorifed
to declare his sentiments, and therefore content
myfelf jointly with our fellow citizens in judging
of his fatisfa&ion on the occasion, from the
republican zeal he has ever fignalifed to acquire
and maintain our rights from the hour (in the dark
day of hope) when he took his feat in the chief
council of the nation to the prefemt moment.
With a due sense of esteem,
I wiffi you a continuation of health.
*A. C. G. ELHOLM.
Samuel Alexander , Lt. Col.
Wilkes county. v
STATE of GEORGIA.
To his Excellency EDWARD TELFAIR, Ef 7. v
Governor and Commander in Chief in and over
this ft ate.
Sir,
PERMIT us jointly in an address to convey
our thanks to your Excellency, with a lull y
sense of that .zeal with which you have care
fully attended to the fafoty of our brethren on
I the frontiers; in ordering the neceflary forts and
requisite guards; the only practical means at that
crisis, which could have cemented the minds of
our exposed friends to maintain their home and
secure their families from falling a prey to a rapa
cious savage mind, and to the prosperity of the
common .veaith, to remain a fafeguard to the
interior parts.
Georgia, now blefied with the reward of indti
ftry to a degree perhaps never heretofore so gene
rally bellowed cn the state by Providence; we
cannot forbear mentioning that we attribute great
ly our affluent condition, and the lingular in free
cy of savage combination, (to endanger our fa left V
to that care which has so olien with the joint ci u
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