- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- Deposition of Abra[ha]m Mordecai, 1791 Mar. 1, Augusta, [Georgia] / sworn to before H[enry] Osborne
- Date of Original:
- 1791-03-01
- Subject:
- Yuchi Indians--Claims against
Creek Indians--Claims against - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- depositions
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This document is a legal deposition of Abraham Mordecai dated March 1, 1791 at Augusta, Georgia. Mordecai states that on or about January 20, 1791 an Indian named Johnny came to Mr. Barnett (Timothy Barnard?) on the Flint River and told him that he had seen three armed Cusseta Indians travelling towards Savannah to trade skins. Johnny alleged that these Indians stole two horses on their way back through the Canouchie (i.e., Canoochee) Creek area. Some local inhabitants who had been searching for a missing white man later approached Johnny's camp and told him that they had found the white man killed and scalped. The Cusseta Indians later arrived back in their towns and claimed that Johnny and the Uchee Indians of his camp had committed the murder, but the other Indians of these towns believed that the three Cusseta Indians were the perpetrators.
Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- cmt007
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_cmt007
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_cmt007#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_cmt007/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], C. Mildred Thompson, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 3 pages/leaves
- Original Collection:
- Manuscript held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, C. Mildred Thompson, box 01, folder 07, document 01.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-
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Personaley [Personally] appeared Abraham Mordecai of Flint River in the State of Georgia Indian trader, who being duly sworn, saith
That on or about the
twentieth of January last an Indian named Johny came to Mr. Barnetts on Flint River and gave the following information -- That Three Cussatta Indians, some here in the Said month of
January were travelling armed towards to Savannah with skins &c [et cetera] -- that near Canouchie Creek two of there horses were missing & that they proceeded without said horses to Savannah & traded their skins &c [et cetera] & returned by the same route, when they came to the Canouchie they stole two horses & passed by the camp of the said Johnny and cross'd [crossed] the Oconee where there was no path and Some time in the night returned by the Said Camp and on the morning after passed the Camp a third time and crossed the Oconee as before upon a raft -- that the two following days Some white men in the Settlement were employed in Searching for a white man who was a missing -- that the men So in Search came to camp of the Said Johnny about the third day after the departure of the Cussata Indians & told him that they had found the person they had been in quest of, killed & Scalped & by means of a Chickasaw Interpreter told the [deleted text: y ] said Johnny that he nor any of his company were Suspected of the murder & advised him & his company to stay and end their
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hunt -- that he the Said Johnny gave them the information above related with which the white people seemed satisfied -- that when the Cussatta Indians arrived at their towns, they [deleted text: [illegible text] ] repeated that the Said Johnny and the Utchie Indians in company with him had committed a murder in the Canouchie settlement that the Cussata Indians aforesaid had two horses which were believed by the Indians of the town to be stolen, and that it was the opinion of the Indians of said Towns that the three Cussata Indians aforesaid had committed the murder before mentioned
[Signed] Abram: [Abraham] Mordecai
Sworn before me the
1st Day of March 1791 at Augusta.
[Signed] H [Henry] Osborne
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Deposition of Abram [Abraham] Mordecai relative to the Murder of a White Man by the Indians
1" March 1791.
Indian
Indian Depredations