FRANKLIN COUNTY, GA - COURT Citizens Seek Frontier Protection 1793 ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Jacqueline King LETTER TO EDWARD TELFARE (TELFAIR), GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA FROM THE CITIZENS OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER OF FRANKLIN COUNTY January 1, 1793 To His Excallancy Edward Telfare Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the state of Georgia We your humble Petitionors do once more presume to beg from your mercyfull hands, some protection for our Disstress'd women and Children, as their Lives With our own are daly Expos'd, to savage Barbarety. It is not long since we ware Leaping with Joy, by reason of the Encouragment You gave us, Even went as far as to pass an act for our Relief, with the Aprobation of your Honnor, and the particulars Came back to us in the publick papers, and from all this Encouragement, we have embodyed our helpless famelies and Stood Sentry Around them, Impatiently waiting your good aid and assistance, as we thought as assurance of it, but Alass what is the the Last Account lamentable indeed to people in our situation the former orders Countermanded by Your Honner. What Cou'd be worse to our feelings than this or what must be the Concequence, Why, Undoubtedly Death must be the fatal Concequence; if not by Tommehock(then) by famine for when our Small stake of Provisions that we are Hudled round is Exausted where is the Support of another year why none maid nor any likelyhood of makeing, We further wish if it be your Good Pleasure to inform us who or what person or persons have been the Instigation of Removeing Your Good Will from our Relief, it must Certainly have been some ill minded person or Raskill that have self Interests in View, & Not feeling for the innocent Fronteers, but their Reward is pointed out and the black Account of Murder Stands Charg'd Against them. Since Mr. Wofford Started Last to Augusta with the Talke of the Noted Villain Shuagee, their has been a Number of Horses taken by the Indians from our fronteer Settlements, five of which ware taken from his fort, & an Abundance of Indian Signs seen by our Spies Which we have to keep at at Our Own Exspence Whilst the fronteers of South Carolina are well garded with men and Sufisient Supply of every nesecery of Life & all at the Publicks Exspence where their Nesessity is none in Comparison to Ours. Three Companies of Horse men would be Sufisient to Gard our Fronteers, Stationed in three Different Places, one at a place known by the Name of Bowens Place, another at Norrises Place & a third at the Corokee Mountain; at each of those Places their is a Sufisiency of winter food, to support their Horses, with a Careful Conductor Shou'd it Please Your Excellancy to Grant Our Request we shall try to Stand Our Ground, Other Ways we must of Necessity fly for our Lives, The Western fronteers of Franklin Cty. from Sir Your Humble Servants By the Bareor Capt. Phillip Martain Who can inform you Particulars Jany 1st 1793 Majr. Terrell William Varnell Elijah Martin Moses Payne Ely Savage John Barnett John Ray Jacob Hollingsworth Mal. Jones Owen Bowen William Allred Reuben Shields John Martin William Norris John Trimble Moses Trimble Daniel Bush John Turk William Jones William ___ Samuel Reed Thomas Raborn Phillip Martin Jolian or Jo Lian Enrique Martin Joel Raborn Simon Terrell Francis ____ William_____ Jacob Hollingsworth Jarred Hollingsworth Thomas Hollingsworth George Vaughn George Cockburn Thomas Hallcom Solomon Huitt Archibald Cockburn Sherod Halcom James Huitt William Huitt John Hall Robert Young James Young Andrew Glenn William Glenn James Terrell Nimrod Flaure Elijah Banks James Coggburn John George Riner John Shipply Thomas Raborn Robert Shipley Robert Shipley Junr. Mathew Shipley Ezra Owens Johan Ramer George Hening Peter Williamson Joseph Dobbs Richard Wiliamson Robert Williamson George Priket William Quillen Joshua Sled or Shed Peter Jones M. Gaithright Florce Sullivan Philip J. Stark John Truball William F. Mann John Starks Repository:Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The University of Georgia Libraries.