CAMDEN COUNTY, GA -  Lang, R to W A Bowles Creek Nation,
Aug 17, 1800

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By Tara D. Fields
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March 06, 2004
History and Genealogy of Camden and Charlton Counties, Georgia 
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Document: KRC106 
Letter [with certification] 1800 Aug. 17, St. Marys, [Georgia] to William A[ugustus] Bowles / Richard Lang
author: Lang, Richard, fl. 1800 
date: August 17, 1800 
extent: 4p 

summary: This is a certified copy of a letter from
Richard Lang to William Augustus Bowles, self-
proclaimed Director General of the Creek Nation, dated
August 17, 1800. Lang discusses raising arms and
ammunition in support of Bowles' efforts (ostensibly an
invasion of Spanish Florida). In 1792, Bowles and his
associates captured Fort St. Marks (Wakulla County,
Florida) and raided the stores of Panton, Leslie &
Company. Lang alludes to the recapture of that fort
earlier that year by Bowles and a group of Seminoles.
Included in this document is a statement made by
William Gibson, a notary public, confirming the
authenticity of the copy of Lang's letter. 

repository: Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries 
collection: Keith Read 
box: 15 
folder: 39 
document: 01 

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Copy of a letter / certified / from Richard Lang to William A Bowles Dated
St Marys August 17th 1800 
Sir.
I wrote you by Robert Allen, that if [deleted: you]
[added: we] could be furnished with arms and
ammunition, I did not think you would want men. I then
had it not well in my power to consult so many of our
friends as I have done since I now am certain that if
you should come so near [added: as] that our friends
could get to you without running the risk of being
embarrassed with those unfriendly Indians that Governor
White has been tempering with, you would not want men.
The Grand thing is, getting to you and putting our
lives immediately under your command! this seems to be
the general wish of most of our friends, hearing that
you had left St Marks has occasioned us to send the
bearer, Mr William Tally express to you, to be informed
where you are, and what is to be done.

My particular friend and brother sufferer Mr Wm
[William] Jones, is now with me and has wrote you also
by Mr Tally. Were you to come this way and arrange
matters and leave some of your people with us, we could
then go on without your remaining with us, but there
seems a difficulty in getting a sett [set] of men
together, without their seeing & knowing who is their
head. Your showing a friendly disposition towards the
Government of the U.S. is a grand thing for us, as it
enables us with more boldness to espouse your cause.
for a number of our friends and some of them high in
Office are hearty friends to the Government of the U.S.
and by no means wish to give cause of offence to that
Government. There is a report that Allen and the few
men that went with him, took away some horses from some
of our friends if so, it was badly done, it makes some
of our friends enemies, Allen is an active young man
and may be of service to us, but must be kept within
bounds -- dispatch the bearer as quick as possible, as
our friends want much to be in motion & let us know
what is to be done. If you conveniently could bring on
a few arms and a little ammunition it would be well,
but perhaps we could make out without, we shall be
making all the preperations [preparations] in our
power, against the bearer returns, We have a number of
friends in Florida, that nothing prevents their joining
us but the want of a sufficient force to protect their
families at the first set out.


I am Sir, with the utmost esteem Your Oblgd. [Obliged] & most Humble Sert. [Servant] /Signed/ 
[Signed] Rich: [Richard] Lang 

Wm. A. [William Augustus] Bowles
Directr Genl [Director General] of Muskugee 
I certify the foregoing to be a true copy, of the copy of a letter sent to Mr Wm A [William Augustus] Bowles by Mr Richard Lang handed to Major Thomas King by said Richd. [Richard] Lang.
St Marys October 13th 1800. (Signed) 
[Signed] William Gibson N. [Notary] Public
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Copy of letter from Richd. [Richard] Lang 
17 Augt. [August] 1800
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