- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter], 1814 May 20, Ocmulgee, Jasper County, [Georgia to] Major Gen[era]l David Adams, Ocmulgee, Jasper County, [Georgia] / James Moore [and] James Taylor
- Creator:
- Moore, James
- Contributor to Resource:
- Taylor, James
- Date of Original:
- 1814-05-20
- Subject:
- Creek Indians
Creek War, 1813-1814 - Location:
- Tallapoosa River Valley (Ga. and Ala.), 33.769883, -85.320466
- Medium:
- official reports
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- Letter dated May 20, 1814 from James Moore and James Taylor giving report to Major General David Adams about their ordered surveillance of the Tallapoosa River to determine the amount of hostile Indians remaining in the Horseshoe Bend area. Moore and Taylor describe meeting two men of the Ockfuskees (also Oakfuskees) who describe the loss of warriors suffered by the Creek Red Sticks during the battles of Horseshoe Bend, Talladega, and others. These men also tell Moore and Taylor about peace terms proposed by Colonel Benjamin Hawkins, Agent to the Creeks.
Digital image of original manuscript, scanned by the University of Georgia Libraries in 2000, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- tcc044
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc044
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc044#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc044/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Telamon Cuyler, 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, Telamon Cuyler, box 77, folder 01, document 01.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-
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Ocmulgee Jasper County
20th May 1814
Major Genl. [General] David Adams
Sir
In obedience to authority and instruction from you bearing date the 2nd instant requiring us to proceed as secretly and expeditiously as possible to the Tallapoosa River, and to ascertain as far as possible the number of hostile Indians in the neighbourhood [neighborhood] of the great bend or horse shoe, we have to inform you that we have performed that duty and thereupon make the following report,
We crossed the Ocmulgee on the 5th instant and proceed on the trail towards the Village of New Yaucaw crossing the Chatahouchee at the old burnt village about eight miles beyond the Chatahouchee we met two men belonging to the Oakfuskee Towns, they informed us they had been sent from a little village up the Chatahouchee by the head man there, to the village called [unclear text: Chatocksoufka ] about eight miles below New Yaucaw, to see a runner there who had been to Col. Hawkins to ascertain upon what terms they could have peace These two men informed us that the [deleted text: [illegible text] ] inhabitants of the little village from which they were sent as messengers had at the commencement of hostility fled to the Cherokees, but had since the battle at the horse shoe, returned to their town, and that they, the messengers belonged to the Ockfaskees, and [unclear text: continued ] with the hostile party until the battle of Taladega, where they [deleted text: also ] fled to the Cherokees also, That in consequence of a proposition from Col. Hawkins prescribing the terms upon which peace would be granted, the hostile party from which the [unclear text: runner ] to Col. Hawkins was sent [deleted text: they ] had determined to take the four principal men of that [deleted text: hostile ] party, one of which they intended to kill, and to deliver the other three to Col. Hawkins That they knew of not more than ten men that had escaped from the battle at the horse shoe, and that not more than twenty warriors
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belonging to the Ocfuskee Towns, has escaped [added text: from ] the [unclear text: different ] battles in which they were engaged, and that all who have survived accede to the terms proposed by Col Hawkins, and are anxious for peace, None escaped from the mad warriors village, none from the [unclear text: Fish ] ponds none from the Tookaubatchie [unclear text: Old ] fields, but three from the village of New Yaucaw
These two men further informed us that in consequence of the confusion which was among the Indians from which they came in endeavouring [endeavoring] to take and give up the four leaders of the hostile party it might be dangerous for us at that time to proceed further but that if we were determined to proceed they advised us to go with them to the village on the Chatahouchee, and wait a few days until this could be over, or get a man there to go with us But conceiving that the information given us by them would answer the purposes of our expedition we concluded to return home which we did without any interruption or seeing any other Indians
[Signed] M
we are Sir very respectfully Your Obt. [Obedient] servants
[Signed] James Moore his
[Signed] M mark
[Signed] James Taylor his
[Signed] T mark
James Taylor does not understand the Creek language but says the facts here stated are true, & that he received the foregoing information from James Moore at the time the conversation took place
[Signed] James Taylor his
[Signed] T mark
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Major General David Adams Ocmulgee Jasper County