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James Meriwether esqr [esquire] Clerk of the Honble [Honorable] the Executive Council Augusta





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Savannah,
4th April 1788.
Sir,
I do myself the Honor through you to inform the Honorable the Executive of occurrences in this district, since my letter to his Honor the Governor of the 20th [unclear text: Ultimo ] . On the evening of that day a Party of Indians attacked Captain Lewis, at [deleted text: [illegible text] ] his Station at Shepherds plantation [added text: on midway ] . I refer them to the inclosed copy or extract from Colonel Maxwells official letter to me.
I am happy that the late Southward alarm, has in some degree subsided: tho [though] I am still of opinion, that the whole of the Settlers on the Main of Glynn


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County will remove. The last Mischief there is a certainty of, was the killing a Man by the name of Pelcher, and the wounding his Brother; who is come in with his arm broke.

I have the honor to be Sir Yr [Your] very Obedt Servt [Obedient Servant]
[Signed] Jas [James] Jackson Brig Genl [Brigadier General] 1st Dist [District]
I have after writing & Sealing the above received the inclosed letter from Cone which has induced me to order twenty Men, Horsemen from that County instead of ten and to write [added text: a little ] [unclear text: severely ] to Col Howell the men will only stay till the State troops come down


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I have a letter similar or more pressing from Capt [Captain] [illegible text] about Cones



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[Apr. 4, 1788]

March the 28 1788
Dear Sr [Sir]
[illegible text] Comes to inform you that I have Latley [Lately] Heard of Sevrel [Several] Murders Commited [Committed] by the Indians up the Country and Thusday [Thursday] the 18th of this instant Som [Some] of my Company Discovered the tracks of three Indians with in ten Miles of whare [where] I [unclear text: Live ] and on Wensday [Wednesday] the 19th Mr John [illegible text] one of My [unclear text: Comny ] [illegible text] to Wm. Mezels Mill and was a short time in the Mill house and when he Came out thare [there] was two Indians at the [unclear text: pear head ] with in ten Short Steps of him and he noing [knowing] him Self to be a Lone Set of [off] to Run and had not got ten steps further before they fired at him he amediently [immediately] turnd [turned] and [added text: fired ] at one of them and Made of [off] to Whare [Where] there was a party and the Indians never pursued him but the reson [reason] was as we beleve [believe] the one he Shot was wounded We have [illegible text] of help neither State trupes [troops] nor [illegible text] nor thare [there] [unclear text: ant ] aney [any] Rigler [Regular] Steps taken to Make Men turn out and the Men on Savanah Sware [Swear] they wont Com [Come] to gard [guard] us to Make Crops pore [poor] fools dont think


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When [unclear text: A ] Brake they will be Com [become] fronttears [frontiers] Which I now tell you Will bee [be] the Case Ef [If] We dont get help very Soon
[deleted text: I Reman [Remain] ] I [unclear text: painley [plainly] ] See that We are [illegible text] and [unclear text: trifeled ] with on [unclear text: Evri [Every] ] Side

I Remaine [remain] your Most obedent [obedient] Humble St [Servant]
[Signed] William Cone
Generl [General] James Jackson Esqr [Esquire]
pr [per] faver [favor] of [illegible text] Croft



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Extract of a Letter from Colo [Colonel] Maxwell dated
29th Marc [March] 1788


"On last evening a party of Indians attacked Capt [Captain] Lewis at Mr Shepherds plantation [edge of page] upper settlement of Midway. He had been out on a Scout to Beards Creek and across that to Canoochie and had returned about the middle of the afternoon turned out his Horses and several of his Men had left Camp to procure forage. A little before Sunset the Indians were discovered coming up behind some outhouses. The Men had just time to fly to their arms and conceal themselves when the enemy marched up within forty Yards discovered the White party and fired. The fire was instantly returned which killed one Indian on the spot and wounded two more The Savages immediately run and Capt [Captain] Lewis ordered his Horses to be caught and pursued them about a Mile to where they had left their bundles and where thy dispersed. One of the wounded bled very freely for some distance the other not so much. Captain Lewis says his Men behaved with the greatest bravery and that it was with difficulty


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he could restrain them from charging the enemy previous to a knowledge of their numbers. The exact number could not be asscertained [ascertained] .
I am afraid Glynn is entirely evacuated and the Southern parts of this County are much alarmed but I hope matters not so bad as they are represented"


I am &
[Signed] Jas [James] Maxwell Genl [General] Jackson