United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.500181730/1842This is an undated petition from several frontier settlers living eight miles below Fort Phillips on the Oconee River. They recommend that a blockhouse and fort be built in the vicinity for protection of those inhabitants who have large farms. The petitioners claim that many of the settlers have vacated the area and "the savages" have burned and destroyed crops.Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.text/htmlimage/jpegtcc796engMode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: AT&T DjVu browser plug-in needed to view images of documents.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/Manuscript held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, Telamon Cuyler, box 62, folder 03, document 01.Indians of North America--Claims againstPetition of the frontier inhabitants adjasent [sic] to Andrew [?] Armor['s] / J[oh]n Wallace ... [et al.]Text