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Elbert 
10th 1795 
Sir, 
agreeably to your recommendation I have removed the Station from Wards Mill on Tugaloe and ordered one to be erected with two good Blockhouses and strong Stockade ninety feet square upon [illegible text]  creek six miles from Wards and as high up said creek as I could find any place tolerably calculated for a station; and within half a mile of the supposed boundary line of this State -- This Station [damaged document: will ]  certainly give great protection, as it [illegible text]  satisfaction to the upper settlements on Tugaloe: lying as they say on the way by which Indians were to [unclear text: meade ]  those settlements -- The works by this time must be nearly completed by [unclear text: Lieut. Stonecypher ]  an active and industrious officer who with his quota of men enlisted till the  
first day of january next look [unclear text: past ]  at that place on friday the  
6th of March.  
I have met with several disappointments (which have delayed the reports) in raising the quota [unclear text: destined ]  for Woffords: but hope from the best accounts I have it is [unclear text: now ]  complete 
 
 
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have given the officers at those Stations command of Spies in the quarter; and flatter myself under the present arrangements we shall have peace and security on our frontier -- the people as far as I could discover are well pleased with the attention paid by Government to their safety: I promised some of them to state to your Excellency the expediency of continuing four Spies on the [unclear text: riding ]  between Tugaloe and Woffords the country being so intolerably mountanous [mountainous]  & broken & the distance so great that it appears to them and to me [document damaged] that two spies however industrious cannot scour [document damaged]  [unclear text: frecuently [frequently]  ]  -- will be glad to hear your determination on that subject  
On a tour the  
last of february and  
fi [added text: r ] st of March round the Stations on this Brigade I met with two detachments from Captain [unclear text: Fauches ]  troop one at the High Shoals of the appalachee the other at the Silver Shoals being chiefly new Recruits and all things considered in as good order as could be expected: have no doubt but they with the  
 
 
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vigilance and industry to be expected from [unclear text: those ]  officers will greatly add to the security & confidence of our frontier  
Saw no infantry [unclear text: form ]  at the Hurricane Shoals encamped till I came to Wards  
 
I have the honor to be with great respect your Obdt Servt [Obedient Servant]  
[Signed]  [unclear text: S Blackburn [document damaged] ]  Genl 2dB. [General 2nd Battalion]  [illegible text]   His Excellency George Mathews  
 
 
 
 
 
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Letter 
Genl [General]  [unclear text: Blackbourn ]  
 
10 April 1795 
Ordered to be filed 
12th instant  
 
Military  
 
[unclear text: Fortifications ]   
 
 
Apr. 10, 1795  
 
His Excellency George Mathews Augusta Thos. [Thomas]  B Scott Esqr [Esquire]