CAMDEN COUNTY, GA - Coleraine Indian attacks 1802

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 Tara D. Fields tutcher@camdencounty.org

Extracted from:
Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
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By Tara D. Fields
tutcher@camdencounty.org

March 06, 2004
History and Genealogy of Camden and Charlton Counties, Georgia 
http://www.camdencounty.org

Document: TCC390 
[Letter with enclosures] 1802 Mar. 12, St. Marys, [Georgia ? to] Josiah Tattnall, Jr., Governor of Georgia / Harmon Courtez

author: Courtez, Harmon 
date: March 12, 1802 
extent: 7p 

summary: This document contains three letters. The
first is a letter, dated March 12, 1802, from Harmon
Courtez, Justice of the Peace in St. Marys, (Georgia
?), to Governor of Georgia Josiah Tattnall, Jr. (1801-
1802), informing him that a number of Indians in the
area near Colerain (Camden County, Ga.) are
contemplating attacks on nearby Spanish settlements.
Enclosed in Courtez's letter is a letter in Spanish on
this subject from Enrique (Henry) White, Governor of
East Florida, to the Magistrates at St. Marys, dated
February 28, 1802. Also enclosed is a translation of
White's letter. White explains that the recent clamor
among inhabitants of the Spanish settlements is a
result of the alleged intentions of Indians, living
within the United States, to attack them. White refers
to a Treaty of Amity, Limits and Navigation, between
the U.S. and Spain, and requests that the U.S. take
the appropriate measures to prevent such an attack. 

repository: Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries 
collection: Telamon Cuyler 
box: 45 
folder: 12 
document: 01 

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Letter from [unclear: Harmon Courter] Esqr. [ Esquire ] inclosing [enclosing] a Communication from the Gevernor [Governor] of East Florida 
Indian Affairs
34

His Excellency Josiah Tattnall Junr. [Junior]
Governor of the State of
Georgia -- 
Mail.
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Harmon Courter 
St. Mary’s Mar. 12th 1802
Ordered to be filed 
23d March 1802

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St. Marys March 12th 1802 
Sir,
The enclosed letter from the Governor of the province of East Florida was received yesterday which I have forwarded for your Inspection... -- 
I have also received information that there are about One hundred & fifty Indians in the neighbourhood [neighborhood] of Coleraine who are meditating an attack on some part of the Spanish Settlements... -- but have not as yet understood to what part of the Indian Nation they belong.

I am with Respect Your excelly Obdt. Sevt. [excellency's Obedient Servant] 
[Signed] Harmon Courtez J.P. [Justice of the Peace] 

His Excellency the
Governor of Georgia 
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Muy señores míos:
Ha llegado a mi noticía [illegible] [unclear: iendo] a las [unclear: cercanias] de Coleraine un crecido numero de Yndios con designio de saquear esta Provincia; y [unclear: err and o] tambien persuadido de que la mayor parte de ellos son de los pueblos que se hallan [unclear: deniro] del territorio de esos Estados, como lo eran los Yndios a quines dieron muerte los havitantes de la Ysla Amalia; se han [illegible] servir [unclear: Unds] adoptar las providencias mas conveniences para impedir la reunion de los salvages que [unclear: hostilizen] a los vasallos de mi soberano, en conformidad al [unclear: arro. go. del erarad] de amistad, limites y navegacion concluid entre ambas naciones.

Dios [unclear: Guardear ms.] 
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muchos años san Agustin de Florida 28 de Febrero de 1802 
B.Ls.Ms. de Vmds 
su mas ato. sego. Servor. 
[Signed] Enrique White 
Señores Magistrados del Pueblo de [unclear: Nessron] 
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Gentlemen.
Having received information that there is in the Neighbourhood [Neighborhood] of Colerain a large number of Indians who intend makg. [making] an attack on this province and that the greatest part of them are from the territory under the Jurisdiction of the United States.
That they are also parties of the Same Indians or from the same Towns who have been before in this province and some of which were killed by the Inhabitants of Amelia Island. -- 
You will please to take the most effectual method which you may think proper to prevent the said Indians from forming in a body and that they may not commit any further depredations on the Subjects of my sovereign 
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in conformity to the fifth article of the Treaty of Amity limits & navigation concluded between both nations -- 

God keep you many Years.

St. Augustine of the Florida s 28th Feb. 1812 
I kiss your h and s 
Your mo. obd. hble. serv. [most obedient humble servant] signed 
[Signed] Henry White 
To the Magistrates
of the Town of St. Marys.