- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Sworn statement], 1794 Sept. 30 [?], Greene County, Georgia / [sworn to by] John Mikal Wagonman and Davis Starrisson
- Date of Original:
- 1794-09-00
- Subject:
- Indians of North America--Claims against
Scalping
Women--Crimes against - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Greene County, 33.57878, -83.16666
- Medium:
- legal documents
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- Sworn statement given in Greene County, Georgia, September 30, 1794 by John Mikal Wagonman and Davis Starrisson, relating their discovery of two women near Fort Fidius(?) that they believed to have been shot and scalped by Indians.
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:
- tcc174
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc174
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc174#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc174/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:
- 1 pages/leaves
- Original Collection:
- Manuscript held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, Telamon Cuyler, box 78, folder 03, document 01.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
State of Georgia Greene County
The year and day hereafter Specif [document is folded] came before me Messrs. [Messieurs] John Mikal Wagonman & Davis Starrisson of aforesaid State & County and after being duly Sworn declareth that on the
[unclear text: 30th ] of September 1794 they both were near Fort Fabius, where a young lady of the name of Catharina [unclear text: Cissena ] had been just shote [shot] down & on examination found a shote-gun [shotgun] wound through her body of which wound she died, and had been Scalpt [Scalped] -- they also declare having seen a [unclear text: negres ] wench which had received two gun shote [shot] wounds, was scaplt [scalped] but had yet life in her; that by [document is torn] they have reasons to believe these horrid [document is torn] Indians; that the [document is torn] saw five [document is torn] by them [document is torn] [unclear text: deponents ] [document is torn] says nothing.
Sept. 30th 1794
I do Certify the above to be the truth [unclear text: being ] there Shortly after [unclear text: and ] Seeing the Dead and Wounded and followed the trail of Sd. [Said] Indians Some Distance --
Sworn to the above on the above Date
[Signed] [unclear text: Geo. Reid J. J. ]