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Letter from 
Majr. [Major]  Martin Harden 
dated  
28th December, 1816. 
Indian Affairs 
 
1816 
Answer Written 
 
21st January 1817.  
 
 
 
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His Excellency David B. Mitchell Milledgeville Georgia  
 
 
 
 
 
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Tatnall 
Decr. [December]  28th 1816 
Sir; His Excellency D. B. Mitchell 
I take leave to inform your Excellency that this Frontier is [unclear text: ogmenting [augmenting]  ], fast, with vagrants, their is many new Settlements made on the Indian land Since the 1st [added text: of ]  November, and the evil Continues the settlers have no visible means to subsist. the alternative of Course must be theft It intirely [entirely]  escapd [escaped]  me; when with you last to ask for the appointment of State agent that I might have removed those Vagrant Intruders; I now Request that appointment for I am well convinced that if Something decisive is not done the Frontier Setlers [Settlers]  will Suffer more than they wou'd [would]  from a Hord [Hoard]  of Savages that negro thief Williams [deleted text: is ]  who made his escape from the Sheriff of this county Sum time [Sometime]  past [deleted text:  [illegible text]  ]  [added text: is ]  now in Tatnall Jail, what Course will be pursued as Regards his detention. I am at a loss to Conjecture he Williams, denies the Jurisdiction of our Courts, to try him as the theft was Committed in Florida it is a pity that the United States and the Spanish Government Cou'd [Could]  not make Sum [Some]  arrangement, to punish those offenders against the laws. [deleted text:  [illegible text]  ]  think that if their [there]  is not Sum [Some]  measure adopted that Considerable bloodshed will be the final Result; as Vagrants  
 
 
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 from all parts of the Union are flocking to [unclear text: Floriday ], or the Indian Land. I submit the ways to your Excellency, the means you are in possession off [of]   
I pray your Excellency to accept the Homage of my Consideration  
 
[Signed] M. Hardin