GEORGIA  MILITARY INDIAN WARS  Creeks - Stewart County  Dec 1835

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4 Dec 1835
OUTRAGE BY CREEK INDIANS.-During the last week, a
party of Creek Indians, about fifty in number,
crossed the Chattahoochie into Stewart county,
went to the house of a citizen named Brown, about
three miles from the river, and, without
provocation, murdered Brown, and beat his wife.  A
party of fifteen citizens immediately assembled,
and attacked the Indians, but after a few fires
the whites retired before the superior numbers of
the marauders, having two men wounded.  It is not
known what was the Indian loss on the occasion.
The governor has isued orders to the colonel of
militia in the county of Stewart, to take the
requisite steps for defending the people, until
the legislature shall act on the subject.  It is
probable that the Indians immediately recrossed
the Chattahoochie.

It appears to us, that the chiefs of the
neighboring Creek towns in Alabama, must know what
Indians composed the party, and that it will not
be very difficult to identify at least a portion
of them.  It is important that  a strong example
should be made of those who dare to disturb the
peace of the State, and to murder one of her
citizens.