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GEORGIA GAZETTE.. Number 23. V. • •AMERICA. Jbm*pd’n t in Maryland, July 14. HE have had repeated reports, that Col. Thomas Crefap, with his family and neighbours, are cut off by the Indians; their plantations lie about three degrees weft of Chcfapeak bay, in Frederick county in Maryland. IVtuiamjlnrgb, in Virginia, July 15. An express arrived here last night from Winchester, with a letter tohis Honour the Gbvernor, dated July nth, giving m account, that all the inhabitants of Hatapfhire, intimi dated by feme lkulking parties of Indians, who have mur dered several families tn rcabo*lts, had left their houses and plantations, anil had taken refuge in the little forts on the iouth branch of that county, ana that many of the inhabi tants of Frederick had followed their example, amounting in all to 648 men, 538 women, and 1191 children. llis Honour we hear has lent up orders to the commanding offi cers, of the counties adjoining to draw out their militia, so Chat it is hoped they will be awe to drive off those merciless lavages, and let the inhabitants return to their fine planta tions, which otherwise must be inevitably destroyed. We arc informed, that two Indians have been taken with in four miles of Winchester, who laid there had been 400 Indians fora fortnight past about the south branch ofFo towmack, and waited there in expectation of being joined by four times that number; they are apprehensive of a vific from‘the Indians; Capt. Robert Rutherford ii gone out with a party of eight men, to learn, if pofliblc, their disposition and numbers. Indians have been seen on the Blue Ridge, and Cel. Crcfap’a being cut off is told with frefti circum stances. Those Indians who have appeared on the Ridge Have done no mifehief, they are supposed to be a party sent from the main body to reconnoitre the country before they fell upon the back inhabitants, which it's imagined they have put off for a few days that they might perpetrate their Intentions upon the people in the time of their harvest. From the face of circumfiances, the beginning of last war was not so alarming or affcaing. What a fhockmg confi de ration it is to fee the harvest fields abandoned, plantations deserted, and the poor wretched inhabitants obliged to fly, or be fealped infurprife! . . Annapolis, July 2f, A gentleman in Virginia writes, m his letter of the 18th, 44 I mire been at Lord Fairfax’s ftnee I saw you, and only returned this day; while I was there, we were alarmed every day with accounts of the Indians being in that neighbourhood, which occafmned many of the inhabitants to leave their plantations, and retire with what effects they could carry into the mod convenient torts. Ihe militia of the five frontier counties have been draughted and lent up into Frederick and Hampshire, and many gentlemen are gone out volunteers.” . Philadelphia, July 21. A letter from Paxton, of the Bth, fays, 44 Three Indians came down the river last night with an account, that two nations, the Senecas and Cayoways, lave declared war against the Engliih, and were joining the Indians to weft ward j and that their accounts from the Ohio arc, that they have destroyed all the forts there except Fort Fitt, whiclr they exported to do in a little time, afterwards to march in'a large body to the weft branch of Sufquehan uah, there to come in a body of 900 men to attack Fot Au gusta, which they likewise expert to reduce, and then to march with that body down the country.” July 28. A letter mentioning the distresses of the frontier Inhabitants, fays, 44 That the Indians had set fire to houses, barns, corn, hay, and in Ihort to every thing that was coni buftile; so that'the whole country seemed to be in one gene ral blaze; that the mifcrics and diltrclic* of the poor people THURSDAY, September 8, 1763. were really (hocking to humanity, and beyond the power / language to defcr.be; thatCariifte was become the b7r -4,01 Angle inhabitant being beyond it j that every ftaole and hovel in the town was crouded with miserable refugees, who were reduced to a state of beggary and de spair, their houses, cattle and harvest destroyed, and from a plentiful, independent people, they were become real ob jects of charity and commiseration * that it was mod difma* ‘hi*? tU ‘ Vkh ****** in WhoCi counteny ncc might be difeovered a mixture ot grief, madnefe and de- and so hear, now and then, the sigh. and groans of men. the difconfokte lamentations of women, and the (creams of children, who had loft their neartft and dearcll relatives ; and that on'both fidet theSufquehannah, for f ome miles, the woods were fifed with poor families and their cattle, who make fires andjive like the fevages.” A gentleman from Carlifle informs us, that in a letter from Aucufta county in Virginia, of the 16th, it is said. that the fettlemcnts of Green Briar and Jack fen's River in that colony, were cut off by the Indians, a few of the inha bitants only escaping. A ru-Torl, Augujl 1. On Thursday last arrived the Al bany poll, by whom we learn, that a congress was lately held by Sir William Johnson at the German Flats, at whicli were present the chiefs of a 1 the Hbcs or Six Nations, ex cept the Sendees, who refufed to fend any. The others brightened the chain of friendftiip, and promised to e\vc the earlicll intelligence of the enemy Indians, and have likewise promised to fend fome of their chief men amoogft the .oreign Indian®, in order to bring about a peace between them and us; Thar, agreeable to their firft promise of in telligence, juft* after the cowgrefs broke op, Sir William Johnloa was acquainted of c number of enemy Indians marching ag.vinft the German Fla*s, when He immediate/ ordered up all the militia <‘n the Mohawk country to tho support of that fettfement and the frontiers, and had Uke wiJe fentdown < rder* to Col. Vandenhayden at Albany to march with five of the rnoft compleat companies of miftti i in and about that city to Sche ectady, for the support and defence of that part of the country and the Mohawks river, there to remain till the commanding officer received further orders from him, ordering the Colonel, at ;he fame time, to replace those five companies by as many others from the lower or moft did int parts of the county. We hear that the detachment of the 17 th regimcnt.whidi marched from Albany the and of June to aflitl at d'Etroit, werefafe arrived at Niagara, but that they had met with a feirmifti, in which it’s (aid they had the advantage greatly. Vfa lit.lt Ip bid, Auguj} 4. On Sunday last sermons were preached in moil of the congregations of this city, in favour of* the distressed back inhabitants, and collections arc uow making for them from home to house. * They write from Carlillc, of July 30th, that on the asth there were in Shippcn (burgh 1383 of our poor diftre (Ted buck inhabitants, viz. 300 men, and 73S children, many of whom were obliged to lie in barns, (tables, cellars, and under old leaky (beds, the d*c ling-houses being all crowded. From Fort Bedford we learn, that Col. Bouquet, with the army under his command, were well there the 27111 ult. having met with no inierruption from enemy, and thai he was to proceed on his march the next day; that no mil chief had been done in that neighbourhood for three weeks, and that the number in all killed thereabouts is 13 ; but they had received advice there from Fort Cumberland, that on Sunday the 24th of last month, as a number of people weru aflcmhled at a place of worlhip, at the Calf Failure, in Au gull a county, Virginia, they were attacked by a party of Indians, who killed 20 or upwards of them.