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Creek Indian Letters
Talks and Treaties
Creek Indian Letters Talks and Treaties
1705-1839
Compiled by John B Wilson, Sec of State
Original Manuscripts in Georgia Department of ARchives
WPA project, p1175
Irwin County December 1833
To the Commander in Chief of this State.
We the citizens of the county of Irwin and Dooly wish to make
our complaint to your Excellency with
respect to our treatment by the Chattahoochee Indians and look up to you for
protection we are daily insulted and imposed on by these retched intruders.
Tthey have been now for about five months ravaging the woods killing our Cattle
and hogs and robbing our fields of our corn peas and potatoes and sugar cane and
has carried it on to a great access.
Too much to be borne with and yesterday we raised a small company to drive them
away 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 g. They did
us nor our no injury they killed and wounded several of our dogs and we
narrowly escaped for their bullets they made the bark fly off the trees
all around us there was only fourteen of us and we suppose there was near
twenty Indians but could not tell as they were in a branch. We now look up to
your Excellency for
protection as it is in your power to adopt some measure to keep such intruders
from amongst us. As we wish to support justice and honesty. We have not yet gone
beyond the law but we cannot suffer such impositions much longer. We
have good reasons to believe 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 endeavored to suppress such rudeness on moderate terms and if
there cannot be measures taken according to law to detect such depredations we
shall be forced to shoot them down where ever we find them
For the satisfaction of your Excellency we will make proof
of this matter by the affidavit of some
of the company and if we thought it necessary we could qualify the whole company
to which we will add 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 said
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 signed before me this 9th December 1833
Samuel A. (his mark) Story Senior
Jonathan Smith J. P.
Georgia
Irwin County
Personally appeared before me Jonathan Smith a Justice of the
Peace for said county Seaborn 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 signed before me this 9th December 1833
Seaborn x (his mark) Taylor
Jonathan Smith, J. P.
We believe this to be sufficient 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
villains for some length 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 Sr..
Samuel Nixon
Lott Whiddon
Jesse Hobie
John S Jerkins
Samuel Story Jr..
Richard Story Jr.
David Smith
Seaborn Taylor
Jonathan Smith J. P.
P. S.
The way we came to know these Indians is from Chattahoochee Mr. Samuel
Story and Jerkins met with one on the 4th Inst. and he told them he was from
Chattahoochee and being asked how many there was out he said heap Indians
hunting and said his name was Peter.
Reverse side of letter
Jonathan Smith ET. All
10 Dec 1833 Indian Affairs
Transcribed by Margie Daniels
Georgia Department of Archives.
1/15/2002
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