Marion County GaArchives Military Records.....Williams, Wiley December 28 1834
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His Excellency William Schley
pg 298

Uchee Village
Marion County, GA
December 28, 1835

Sir,
We have it in contemplation to form a Volunteer Company in this County for the 
purpose of protecting the frontier from Indian depredations, and to instruct 
ourselves in Military Science.  The formation of the company however depends 
upon our getting public arms from the State, and I have been requested to 
address your Exellency upon the subject. We prefer Rifles if they can be had, 
if not we will use Muskets and form a Light Infantry Company.  Whilst there is 
a great deal said upon the suject and in some places, much larm in the 
community in regard to the hostile disposition of the Indians which may be made 
the means in some places of political effect, and in others of scattering the 
public arms and treasure.  I must be permitted to express my individual opinion 
that in seven cases out of ten, the difficulties between our citizend and the 
Indians arrise from the conduct of our own people.  That there are a few 
strolling Indians now and then in our settlements, there is no doubt, but they, 
even then, are incited to mischief by the inhuman treatment they received at 
the hands of our own people, and the most effectual method of pulling down all 
the troubles upon our borders would be to treat them ore like human beings 
deriving their existence from the same source with ourselves and less like 
brute beats as they appear to be now regarded by us. Any law which we may make 
will prove negatory, because our people are ready enough without law, to punish 
mischevious Indians, and our Laws, if general, will only operate on those who 
are well disposed -- moreover as they are in some sort recongized by the laws 
of Alabama as citizens, it may be a matter of enquirey whether they are not, 
under the constitution of the United States, entitled to some privileges in any 
state through which they may pass, so long as their conduct authorizes it.  
These remarks are protuded upon your Excellency, uncalled for I am aware, but I 
do not wish to creat a wrong impression upon you for the purpose of obtaining 
public arms.  Disconnected however with this consideration, I see no 
impropriety in granting us the arms, as weill return them whenever called for.

Will your Excellency have the goodness to inform us, whether we can be supplied.

Yours Respectfully,
Wiley Williams

(on reverse)
Uchee Village
Wiley Williams of Marion Ct applies for arms
12 1/2 Dec 27  

To His Excellency William Schley
Milledgeville, GA

Answered 31st Dec 1835
Letter Wiley Williams 28 decrm 1835 application for Arms


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Source:
Georgia Dept of Archives and History

Vol 6 1830-1835  
WPA Project no 5993

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