- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- Letter, 1815 Jan. 4, Fort Mitchell to Gen[era]l [William] McIntosh / Colo[nel] Benjamin Hawkins
- Creator:
- Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816
- Date of Original:
- 1815-01-04
- Subject:
- Creek Indians--Government relations
Choctaw Indians--Warfare
Creek Indians--Warfare
Fugitive slaves
Great Britain--Foreign relations--1800-1837
McIntosh, William, ca. 1775-1825 - Location:
- United States, Florida, 28.75054, -82.5001
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018 - Medium:
- official reports
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This is an unsigned letter dated January 4, 1815 that is purportedly from Colonel Benjamin Hawkins, U.S. Agent to the Creeks, to Creek leader General William McIntosh and may be an extract. The document contains the information of the Speaker of the Lower Creeks indicating that a chief warrior led a party towards the frontier of Georgia, killed five white people, and carried their scalps to the British just below the confluence of the Flint and Chattahoochee Rivers. The speaker also said that there were a few white troops at Forbes's store, on the Appalachicola River, along with some Choctaw warriors from Fort Jackson. Runaway and stolen slaves were also reportedly nearby, and provisions, especially meat, were very scarce.
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. - Local Identifier:
- tcc886
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc886
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc886#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc886/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Telamon Cuyler, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 2 pages/leaves
- Original Collection:
- Manuscript held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, Telamon Cuyler, box 76, folder 25, document 18.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-
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Col. [Colonel] Hawkins to Genl. [General] McIntosh
The following information received recd. [received] today from the Speaker of the Lower Creeks in a public council is deemed by them substantially true.
"The chief warrior of Mic,co, Soo,kee led a party of his warriors towards the frontiers of Georgia, ten in number and killed five white people, and carried the scalps to the Brittish below the confluence of the Flint and Chattahoochie -- There are a few white Troops at Forbes's store (18 miles up Apalachicola on the East side) The store was surrounded with a ditch. 32 warriors of Choctaws from Fort Jackson (a part of those who had surrendered there) and a great many red clubs were there -- The Runaway and stolen negroes were close by the store; Provision short, biscuit only. So great the scarcity of meat that the Choctaws subsisted partly on old stinking cow hides."
"The supplies of Indian goods arms and ammunition very abundant. Two Houses of dry goods and four of saddles, Brass Kettles arms and ammunition. There were some vessels back of the Islands opposite the mouth of the river, with Troops on board, and some of the Troops were landed and could be seen from the mouth of the river. -- "
Accept assurances of my most respectful regard --
Camp near Fort Mitchell
Jany. [January] 4th. 1815.
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Letter from Colo. [Colonel] Hawkins to Genl. [General] McIntosh dated
4th. January 1815. Indian War
H. [Hawkins] to Genl [General] McIntosh!