Irwin-Dooly County GaArchives Military Records.....Irwin & Dooly counties Letter to Governor December 9 1833 Indian - Letters ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Lindy Hard ssautyvalleyfarm@worldnet.att.net February 18, 2004, 11:22 am 1833---- Creek Indian Letters Talks and Treaties 1705-1839, compiled by John B Wilson, Sec of State, Original Manuscripts in GDAH; WPA project, p1175 Irwin County/ To the Commander in Chief of this State. We the citizens of the Countys of Irwin and dooly wish to make our complaint to your Exlency with respect to our treatment by the Chatehoochy Indians and look up to you for protection we are daily insulted and imposed on by these reatched intruders they have been now for about five months raviging the woods killing our Cattle and hogs and robing our fields of our corn peas and potatoes and sugar cane and has carried it on to a greate acess too much to be borne with and yesterday we raised a small company to drive them a way and we went after them as quick as we advanced in sight of them they raised a yell and fired eight or ten guns we then became alarmed and turned to go from them when they followed after us screaming and fired another platoon in all this we had not fired a gun they did us nor our horses no injury they killed and wounded several of our dogs and we narrowly escaped for their bullets made the barke fly of the trees all around us there was only fourteen ofus and we supose there was near twenty Indians but could not tell as they were in a branch we now look up to your Exlency for protection as it is in your power to adopt some measure to keep such intruders from amongst us as we wish to suport Justice and honisty we have not yet gone beyond the laws of the law but we cannot surrer such imposions much longer we have good reasons to beleive that the Citizens of this vicinity has been injured one hundred dollars or more in the course of five months we have for a considerable time indeavored to supress such rudeness on moderate terms and if there cannot be measures taken according to law to detect such depradations we shall be forced to shoot them down where ever we find them for the satisfaction of your Excelencey we will make proof of this matter by the afidavit of some of the company and if we thought it necessary we could qualify the whole company to which we will ad our names and certified by a Justice of the peace that was in company Georgia Irwin county} personally appeared before me Jonathan Smith a Justice of the peace for sd county Samuel Story and after being sworn saith that on the eight day of this Inst. him and other went to order a party of Indians of and when they came in sight of them they began to hallow and to shoot and continued on till they fired something like thirty times and in all that time we never fired a gun Sworn to and asigned before me this 9th December 1833----- Samuel A(his mark) Story Senr. Jonathan Smith J. P. Georgia, Irwin county} personally appeared before me Jonathan Smith a Justice of the peace for sd county Seaburn Taylor and after being sworn saith that on the eight day of this Inst. him and others went to order a party of Indians of and when they came in sight of them they began to hallow and to shoot and continued on till they fired something like thirty times and in all that time we never fired a gun Sworn to and asigned before me this 9th december 1833-- Seaburn x (his mark) Taylor Jonathan Smith, J. P. We believe this to be sufficent for the satisfaction of the mind of your Excellency and leave the matter with you whether we must be thus imposed on or whether you will defend our rights we have been intruded upon by these savage vilians for some lenght of time but not in such an insulting manner as this which is too much to be borne with we will now record the names of the men that was thus insulted to wit Joseph Sumner.. Benj. Willis.. Jerimiah Williss Seaburn land Samuel story..Senr. Samuel Nixon Lott Whiddon Jesse Hobie John S Jerkins Samuel Story Junr. Richard Story Jnr. David Smith Seaburnn Taylor Jonathan Smith J. P. P. S. the way we came to know these Indians is from Chattehoochy Mr. Samuel Story and Jerkins met with one on the 4th Inst. and he told them he was from Chattehoochy and being asked how many there was out he said heap Indians hunting and said his name was peter On reverse Letter Jonathan Smith et. al 10 Dec 1833 ansd. Indian Affairs This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.8 Kb