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[ Note: A postmark stamp appears in the upper left corner of the address.; [unclear text: Savannah ]
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To his Excellency Peter Early Governer [Governor] and Commander in Chief of the State of Georgia --





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[deleted text: [unclear text: Honoured [Honored] ] ] Sir/
I take the liberty to write these few lines to your Excellency, hoping they may meet you in Good health, and a clear Acceptance to [unclear text: receive ] Solid and Sure information from a Citizen that has been much injured by the Barbarous Savages generally believed of Cainards Town
You have no Doubt heard of the Murderous Depredation commited [committed] by the Savages, in Killing Isaac Johns of Wane County, and Thomas Wilder, Jonas Bevin & [unclear text: Rheubin Cottle ] of Camden County all four Murdered on the frontier of their Residing Counties, Whilst in honest pursuit of indeavouring [endeavoring] to secure their stock from those violating Savages, after killing the three latter [later] Scalped striped [stripped] them naked and left them bear [bare], also had Killed their horses, in the firing, took their Back [unclear text: track ], Supposed by the sign to be at least forty Indians, and if their [there] had been or Even now a Sufficient Body of men to take the trail could Easily pirceive [perceive] of what tribe they are of it is believed their intention was to Massacre the St Mary Settlements, But after Killing these three men took a fright and Went Back, in order to make another Set off -- and now may it pleas [please] Your Excellency I cannot forbear informing you that the said Thomas Wilder Was the only own Brother I had in this timely world, and all the savage race cannot restore him to me and his beloved Family again, of Whom they have distroyed [destroyed] and taken away the Greatest friend and Father of Six Children, Who never can be restored to them again and is now left to partake of the Miseries of human life and no one to sooth [soothe] their distress and relieve their wants and myself not able to befriend them as I would with on account of a Miserable nervous disorder that I have been Labouring [laboring] under for these Eight years, and may it pleas [please] your Honour [Honor] the Whole Savage Race cannot atone for the Loss of so Great a friend, for he was much Respected by all, who realy [really] knew him


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I hope, and greatly trust in the living God who is the Universal Sovereign, that he Will place in you and the rest of the Ruling Characters, a Justifiable Spirit of Revenge, in order to Glean those Wretched Savages off of the land of the living, and that the Great Supreme in his Mercy May pardon them in the world to come
For my dear Friend if the Frontier Settlers are not to be protected on their own Ground, whilst after their honest pursuits, who is to be protected, for their must [unclear text: need ] be a frontier Settlement in all countries
Therefor [Therefore] I hope, I trust that you will endeavour [endeavor] to sweep those Savages off of the Land, although I am confident you are not the least deficient in knowledge and Skill to Direct, But I am afraid it will not be done time enough for the Southern Inhabitants for there is no force there Sufficient to deliver these Settlers from the British force and Indian Fury.
May it please your Excellency if these Savages are not destroyed, or Brought in Complete Subjection they will ever be Destroying Inocent [Innocent] Families, and Individuals When ever time and opportunity admits,
And in Case the Business is Wraped [wrapped] up and a treaty of peace made, without redress, your Excellency will in this case be not the least Surprised to hear of these Savages being Killed on the Frontier of this Country
For may it please your honour [Honor] My Father [unclear text: Jeremiah ] Wilder, proved a true friend to his country in freedoms cause, in the Late American Revolution, he was a Magor [Major] under Col. Jack, and there is some few veterans Still in the Land of the living that were acquainted with him all knew him to be an honest man and much Respected, and now for his Children to be Massacred by the Savages on Freedoms Ground, and no [unclear text: recompense ], is too much much to be borne [born] by the true


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hearted Sons of [document is damaged] noble veterans of 76 in Fredoms [Freedom's] Cause
Dear Friend Excuse me if you please for the freedom I take in Communicating to you by way of letter a few Sentences on the Subject that troubles my mind for I cannot forbear

Yours Sir/ with my best Wishes for your Excellencies Welfare, With the Greatest Respect --
[Signed] Wm. Wilder

Jany. [January] 12th 1815



Letter from William Wilder dated
12th. January 1815
Indian War