Indians of North America
Border patrols
Georgia



His Excellency Governor John Clark

Greenesborough
19th December 1821
Honored Sir!
Your Excellency's gracious favour [favor] of the 10th inst. [instant] I have the honor of acknowledging, and very respectfully to thank you, in behalf of the officers and men formerly under my comand [command] as well as for myself; for the interest which your Excellency is pleased to take in our case and your being pleased to pledge your endeavours [endeavors] in procuring justice for us. I also feel grateful toward Lieut. Colo. [Lieutenant Colonel] Duncan G. Campbell -- Your Excellency; Governors Tellefair, Mathews -- Majors-Generals Elijah Clark, Twigs and Irwin, (these last five characters of exalted memory) not forgetting General Glascock, were ever known to be the patrons, the protectors of frontier settlers -- I recollect with grateful feelings, the informal, but friendly visits which two of those departed worthies occasionaly [occasionally] made to the posts and cantounments [cantonments] then under my care; laying with us on the cold ground and partaking of our rough fare; bestowing on us the advices [advice] which their long tryed [tried] experience had stored their minds with -- Generals James Jackson and Daniell Stewart were then similarly engaged in the lower parts of the State as the Cleveveland in the upper -- It is the pride of my old age that under all these I had the honor to serve my Country.
In common with some of those departed heroes, your Excellency is now reproached with having been deprived of the opportunity and advantages of a collegiate education -- but those scholars do not reflect that in the time of your tender years, your Excellency [illegible text] in circumstances where you must have daily; at times momently, been receiving, issuing, executing orders; habitually making estimates of various kinds and on different scales -- that you saw your Country's ennemies [enemies] and your neighbours [neighbors] and friends (these last of merited cherished recollection) fall in warlike conflict: that in the midst of triumph and victory you had to sympathise [sympathize] with the sufferings of the wounded, devising expedients for their removal in the mode which should prove the least hurtful to them, providing as well as possible towards their relief and the necessities of all, in wildernesses, distant from any settlements, but those of a ruthless foe -- What colledge [college], what Academy, what Senatus-Academicus are there? where could you have learnt [learned] more concerning the dearest interests of our common Country? -- I will not further proceed: I feel as if I were opening anew honorable wounds in the [unclear text: comrades ] of your toil, and laying to contribution your natural modesty. -- To conclude:
We were mustered into service, once by Lieut. Colo. [Lieutenant Colonel] Elholm, another time by Lieut. [Lieutenant] Van Allan, then of the Federal army -- out of service by Lieut. Colo. [Lieutenant Colonel] William Melton (at our [unclear text: instance ], for we had perceived that the Indians had taken to hunting, a mark that they meant to relapse for awhile, at least, from their depredations) -- [illegible text] the muster and pay rolls [deleted text: were examined ] for the services for which I claim were examined by the then Agent of the War Department, now Lieut. Colo. [Lieutenant Colonel] Constant Freeman -- quatruplicates [quadruplicates] of which I left in his hands and which I learnt [learned] he forwarded to the War Department of the U.S. lodging duplicates in Lieut. Colo. [Lieutenant Colonel] Wiley [unclear text: Pope ], [added text: Office, ] then pay-Master-General of the Militia [added text: in the service ] of the United States, for Georgia -- For the periode [period] of time for which I claim, in common with the rest of the militia then in service, there was not a point of frontier in the whole Union which was not in hostile contact with the Indians; for from Canada to the St. Mary the Indians seemed to have formed a General coalition -- General Hamtrank, afterwards, St Clair were defeated to the North, when General Wayne finally obtained a victory -- Capt. Wilbourn commanded on the narrow border of South Carolina -- Major Orr on those of Tennessee -- your Excellency, not doubt, recollect how here we were employed: we were paid for services performed previous to the time for which we claim: we were paid for services performed afterwards; and for the most arduous periode [period] ; the time for which the militia drawn on the frontiers of the border [deleted text: s ] - States of the Union were all punctualy [punctually] paid, the most part of the militia so drawn on those of Georgia have remained unremunerated --

Give me leave to assure your Excellency of the profound respect and long-standing regard with which I have the honor to remain Your Excellency's Most humble and most obedient servant
[Signed] Jonas Fauche Ancient Capt. Militia Dragoons



Letter
Col. Jonas Fauche
1821
Militia Claim

Greenesboro Ga

Decr. [December] 23
10
His Excellency Governor John Clark Milledgeville

Letter Colo [Colonel] Jonas Fauche
1821