Independent Journal, Or, The General Advertiser

AUGUSTA, September 25.

Extract of a letter from John Sevier, Esq. Governor of the State of Franklin, to his honor the Governor of this State, dated Mount-Pleasant, August 30, 1787.

'RESPECTING the conduct of the Creeks, I think it extraordinary indeed, that they should have the insolence to demand any white person as a retaliation, when it is notoriously known, they were the first aggressors, and that they have frequently, and indiscriminately, murdered our good and peaceable citizens for many months past.

'The two enclosed letters from Colonels Robertson and Bledsoe, will inform you of the many murders and ravages committed in that country by the Creeks: also of the fate of Capt. Davenport, and some others in the Chickasaw nation.

From past experience, I believe, every overture made by that perfidious nation, the Creeks, is intended for a deception. The State of Georgia may be convinced that we will encounter every difficulty, in order to raise a formidable force to act in conjunction with your army, in case of a campaign.

'We have lately been informed from Virginia, that a number of gentlemen in that State are ready to join us as volunteers.

'Our Assembly sat but a few days, and adjourned to the 17th of September. They ordered 400 men to be raised for the defence of our frontiers; they will be stationed in the vicinity of Chickamaugah.'

Extract of a letter from Colonel Robertson, to the Governor of the State of Franklin, dated Nashville (Cumberland) August 1, 1787.

'By accounts from the Chickasaws, we are informed, that at a Grand Council held in the Creek nation, it was unanimously determined, to do their utmost, this fall, to cut off this country, and we expect the Cherokees have joined them.

'On the 5th of July, a party of Creeks killed Captain Davenport, agent for Georgia, and three more in the Chickasaw nation, wounded three, and took one prisoner; which the Chickasaws are not able to resent for want of ammunition.

'The people are drawing together in large stations, and do every thing necessary for their defence; but, I fear, without some timely assistance; we shall chiefly fall a sacrifice. Ammunition is very scarce, and a Chickasaw now here, tells us, that they imagine to reduce our stations by killing our cattle, &c. and starve us out.

'We expect they are now on their way to this country to the number of a thousand.'

Extract of a letter from Col. Bledsoe, to the Governor of the State of Franklin, dated Sumner County, August 5, 1787.

'The savages are daily committing the most cruel outrages—Poor Major Hall and his eldest son, fell a sacrifice to their fury two days ago, near Bledsoe's Lick. They have killed about twenty-four persons in the course of a few months in this settlement, besides a number more near it.'

Extract of a letter from General Cocke, to his honor the Governor of this State, dated Mulberry-Grove, (State of Franklin) June 25.

'When I take a view of the local and political situation of this country, I conceive the interest of your State, so far as respects Indian affairs, almost inseparable with the safety and happiness of this country: I am certain every thing to serve your State or its interest, will be done by the people of Franklin. General Kennedy, I imagine, will be able to raise a thousand or fifteen hundred men as volunteers, and I think I can raise a like number; an army of two or three thousand men will be quite sufficient to march through any of their towns. I hope the Indians have not been so successful in your State as the Cherokees report; the accounts from that nation are, that the Creeks have killed twenty-five families without the loss of a man. I have ordered the different Colonels under my command, to hold their men in readiness, to march when necessity shall require it.'