1. The extract has not been identified. John Habersham, collector at Savannah, probably authored the letter.

2. The Georgia commissioners spoke to the Creeks at Colerain on 18 June: “The hatchet has been frequently lifted, as well by your mad people, as by the mad people of Georgia. We are now met, under the eye of the great beloved man, General Washington, who has sent his beloved men, the commissioners of the United States, here, to settle all disputes between us and you.

“It is true, that many of our people have been killed by your mad people, and it is also true, that many of your people have been killed by our mad people. We are sorry for it, because we were all formed by the same Great Spirit, and ought to live as bethren of the same great family. Yet, when we recollect that we have mad people on each side, we should make allowances for each other; and when we are assured that the conduct of those mad men has not been countenanced by the beloved men, we ought to forget and forgive the blood which has been spilled.

“As to the murders on the Oconee … the good citizens of Georgia were as much displeased at them as you were. It gave the beloved men of Georgia, when they met in council, much pain, and they told the great beloved man, General Washington so.” Creek retaliation prior to trials of all the perpetrators caused “sorrow” as did the failure to return “prisoners, and property, such as negroes, horses, cattle” as promised in three prior treaties. The commissioners wanted the Creeks to turn over “a slip of land” between the Ocmulgee and Oconee rivers. “We wish to pay you for it, and are desirous of obtaining it, because it will heal all old differences, and rivet the chain of friendship between us so firmly, that it will last for ages, and prevent the spilling of our and your blood, and the blood of our and your children after us. … Now, when one nation has fewer people and more land than another nation, which has a great many people, and not land enough for them to live on, the earth being the nursing mother for all, white men or red men, the nation which has fewest people, and most land, ought to part with a little of it to the other nation, at a reasonable price.” The commissioners also stated dissatisfaction with a boundary line negotiated in the Treaty of New York that omitted their claim to land left to the Indians and asserted that unless the Creeks fulfilled obligations under that treaty “to restore all our negroes and property, with the prisoners you had taken, belonging to our people … this land must be considered as ours” (ASP description begins Walter Lowrie et al., eds. American State Papers. Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States. 38 vols. Washington, D.C., Gales and Seaton, 1832–61. description ends , Indian Affairs, 1:614–16).

3. These letters have not been identified.