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JHONCHEST ER,^ (Virginia) Sept. io. "4 From the Jufiices of the Court of Abbeville, now fitting , to the People living on No fi lechuckjy French Broad and tioulfion • WE have lately, through various chan nels, received information, that the Che rokees on your fide of the mountains have received many injuries, and fuffered very great calamities, from some among you, who pretend to aft by the authority of your government, or with the general ap probation of the people in your fcttle ments. - While the Headmen from Highwaffie were coming to meet in a conference to which they were invited, a party from your settlements went round and murder ed seven of the Indians, who were peace able working in their corn fields; —nine also were murdered at Chilowee; —thirty have been (laughtered on the Tenafee, and one made a prifonerthe inhabitants of Chota and five other towns have been forced, by the outrages committed on them, to abandon their settlements and their crops of corn, and fiy to this fide of the mountains for peace and proteftion* A friendly letter was written to them, Tequefting them to return and live again at their towns, and also to fend in a runner, with a white flag, which they were told was facrcd by the law of nations. A few days after this a party from among you came to Cittico, and there murdered two Indians—men who had remained in their houses: The party then proceeded to Chilhowee, and raised a white flag i on which the Old TafTel, Old Abraham, his son, and the Leech, Indian Chiefs re markable good offices and fidelity in the darkest situation of our affairs, rais ed a flag on their part, and came out} they came under the proteftion of a flag , of truce, a proteftion inviolable even amongst the most barbarous people, and in the charafter of Ambafladors; a law held sacred by the custom and law of na tions, and by the consent of mankind' in every age i But under this charafter, and with the sacred proteftion of a flag, Ihey were attacked and murdered. Your bosoms will no doubt burn with resentment at the recital of those unpro voked injuries, as ours did when we re ceived the information, information which we are grieved to find so well authenti cated. The objefts of thefc murders and mafi'acreß were an harmless and peaceable, and almost defencelefc people—circum flances which give them a just claim to the compassion of every humane and noble W mind, and it is unworthy American va- lour and heroism, which bled in the cause of liberty, and defended it when attacked by the most formidable power, to kill and plunder a few naked unarmed savages, who wish for nothing but to possess their lands, and kill their venison in peace: They are also a free and independent na tion,. to whom the proteftion of the Unit ed States has been granted, for their free dom and poffeflions, by the most solemn treaties ; and they are our allies and friends—friends who adhered to us in the darkest season of our affairs, when the other Indian tribes, and even a great part of this nation, united against us, to aid the Britifti in their attempts to lay the yoke of slavery on our necks: These people have also couftantly teftified the most friendly disposition towards your set tlements, and when attacks have been me ditated, or expeditions set on foot against you by the .Creeks, have given you time ly warning of the danger. Far be it from us to imagine that their wanton and infyumin injuries to the peace able and faithful allies, their unmanly at tack upon unarmed and unfulpefting ra vages, their violations of treaties, in fractions ot the law of nations and rights of men, and wanton outrages on the feel ings of humanity, have been perpetrated by the order, with the approbation, or even knowledge, of the whole people whom we now address ; you feel uo less warmly than we do the indignation and horror which such conduct ought to iu fpire in generous and noble minds; but all people have bad men among them, therefore it is highly incumbent that the virtuous and conliderate part of the com munity watch over the actions of the un deferviug, to prevent them from involv ing their country in calamities, to gratify their own bale and unworthy pillions. By a Arid i'earch you may find out the perlons who come within the above de feription, and you are bonnd by every tie of juitice and honor, duty and found po licy, to retrain such as they are from fi- j milar conduct in future: This is what J the Indians themselves have done, in late ly lentencing to death one of their people, who was concerned, in kilting a white man belonging to this bate. We therefore, being citizens of the United States with yourselves, anticipate the evils that must neceffariiy flow from the impropriety of palling unnoticed such mifeonduct in a few individuals, afting from the meanest and baled motives, and which, as far as is known to us, appears to be totally unprovoked on the part of the Cherokees, and which may tend to de feat the treaty now on foot between the Creeks and Georgians, under the auspices of Congress, and which, from the just and peaceable difpolition of the Indian Chiefs, give us reason to hope for the mod happy effects. We flatter ourselves this letter will have its due effect, in preventing such disorders 1 for the future, as vve can allure you, on our parts, it proceeds from our sincere affedtions towards you, and a with to re ltore peace and harmony to ail parties. We have the honor to be, very re fpwdliuily, &c. John Bowie, Charles Goodwin, R. A. Roplay, R. G. Harper, Wil liam Suaw, A. C. Jones, Pa trick Calhoun, Andrew Pickens, • Robert Anderfou, William Baf kin, A. Hamilton, James Lin coln. Abbeville County , South- Carolina , July 9, 17S8. On Friday the Bth of August lafl: a par ty of armed men, confiding of 31, un der the command of Capt. John Fain, left Houlflon station, on Nine Mile Creek, and eroded the river Tenafee, about eight or nine miles distant, in order to gather apples in the vicinity of an Indian town called Cittico, lately abandoned by the Cherokees ; the Indians fuffered them to pass the river unmolested, and, immedi ately, unperceived by our people, took pofletfion of the ford they had eroded, likewise another at a small diflance above; by this time some of* our people were in the orchard, and some on the trees, ga thering fruit, when they were suddenly attacked by a body of the favageson all quarters; this sudden and unexpected alarm threw them into the utnfoft con fufion, so that every man, who did not immediately fall, endeavoured to make a retreat; but, the savages being in pofl'ef fion of the fording places, a number took the river, and, whilst endeavouring to | escape by fwlmming, fcvftral were kin P and wounded ; -the latter werp n ,„r and mod of them fell a facrifice to barbarity. The following is a lift of the Un W. nate men killed and wounded: KILLED. John Fain, Captain - r leb Jones, jofeph Alexander, VanpL field, Wiiham Lang, Jonathan Dean t" Brannon, William Englifti, j ohn v ’f lock, Fvobert Huston, George Mathew.' Isaac Anderlbn, Charles p a y aCj Luth * Johnson, Hermon Gregg, George^ u i, WOUNDED. Ehtha Haddon U Kirk, Thomasßrown, Buiio^ AXJ GU ST A, Nov . GEORGIA, 1 BURKE COUNTY. 5 Oftoker Term, 1788. In the SUPERIOR COURT It is ordered , , That the Presentments of the Gran* I Jury of the prefeut Terra, be publiihcdi, the State. Gazette. lft ‘ \7i/ E P rcf «nt as a great grier. ▼ ▼ ance, that the troops that are already railed for the defence of the state, are not kept in the frontier counties of the lame, ir» order as much as pofiibl: to prevent the ravages of the Indians. * 2d, We present as a great and perni cious evil, that there are a number of p er . sons fuffered to live openly and publickly together (against the law? of God and this state) in adultery and fornication; particularly Abfolom Wallis, having | wife, auJ doth cohabit with and keep another woman named Sarah Howe!! otherwise Sarah Reid: Also William Hinds, for publickly keeping and cohabit ing with Mary Graham, the wifeofjohn Graham i Alio Thomas Spikes, having a wife, and keeping publickly and coha biting with Lydea Butts : Also Joshua luman, he having a wife, and keeping publickly and cohabiting with Betfey* R^wles: Also Simon Sacket, tothedif grace of human nature, publickly keeping and cohabiting with Anne Jordon, who, during the life time of her husband, Ma thew Jordon, bore a child, which said Sac ket acknowledged to be his. 3d.- We present the Commiflionersof the road from M‘lntolli Creek down to the Beaver Dam Creek, for their not keep ing the fame in repair. 4th. We present James Jones, John ’ Brownfon and John Davenport, Coramif fioners for clearing Briar Creek, for the negleft of their duty as Commiflioners. sth. We present Jonathan Kemp, Ro bert Allen, and Joseph Hampton, Com miflioners of the road from the Quaker road to for their not opening and clearing said road. 6th. We present John Pierce, John Clements, aud Blaflingham Harvey, Cora miffioners of the road leading from Waynelborough to Rocky Comfort, for their not keeping the said road in repai:- 7 th. We present Jolhua Inman, [an. * Gaynes, John Wade, and Thomas Poyth ref», as gamblers - t therefore a uuiiance to this county. Bth. We present Jacob Sharp, E t hra;nt Peebles, Edmund Low and WiHiarn Tho mas, for horse racing on the Sabbat* day. <jth. We present the following sons for retailing of spirituous liquors fmali quantities without licence, viz. Beil, Pvobert Dixon, James White, 1 • Sapp, and John Hammer, by informal