742. KEEPING THE PEACE ON THE GEORGIA FRONTIER - JOHN MILLEDGE (1757-1818) Fine content L.S. as Governor of Georgia, 2pp. 4to., Louisville, Ga., Jan. 7, 1803 to Col. John Jones of Montgomery County, informing him: "A report has prevailed for some time past that Capt. Benjamin Harrison of your County had crossed over the Indian line with a party of men under his command and had killed several Indians. I have been endeavoring to trace the report to some authentic source, but in vain-yet does the report exist, and with many a certainty of belief -- Under those circumstances I have thought proper to write you, requesting that you will use every proper measure to find out whether the report is founded in truth-that if so legal example may be made of them who are daring enough in the face of their Country's Laws, and its Welfare and happiness, do Acts in violation of them. No doubt you have been informed of an Indian being killed at Major Blackshear's Mill in Washington County attempting to make his escape from the Custody of a constable who had him confined under a warrant for horse stealing." Relative peace would be maintained on the Georgia-Creek frontier for another nine years. In 1812, a faction of the Creek Nation began organized resistance to white encroachment culminating in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend where the Creek were defeated at the hands of Andrew Jackson. The Creek were compelled to cede 20 million acres, approximately half their ancestral land. Heavy showthrough from previous damping, otherwise good. $200-300