Manuscript letter written and signed for her in a clerical hand, to Georgia Governor James Jackson, detailing her captivity with the Creek Indians and petitioning him for his assistance in recovering her daughter who remained a captive .
Laurens County, SC, 14 October 1799. 2 pages, with an affidavit signed by her with a mark on a third page (12x7 inches, 300x180 mm). The affidavit signed by several county officials and with a paper seal. Condition: Some browning and toning, a few very minor chips at edges. remarkable 1799 manuscript account of a female and child captive held by creek indians in georgia. Lilyann Williams, apparently illiterate as this letter is written and signed on her behalf by a clerk (although with the integral affidavit containing her mark) here petitions Georgia Governor for his assistance, relating her capture, the birth of a daughter in captivity and describing her in detail in the hopes that he can assist in recovering her. “… I am a woman that in the year 1787 was taken a prisoner by the Creek Indians in your state and my Husband afterwards died. I was pregnant when taken, and while a prisoner brought forth a female Child. And in May 1795 I was brought into Savannah and Exchanged for, but the Indians refused to give up my Child, which is now near twelve years old. And now being informd that by the federal Treate with Sundry of the Indian tribes & with sd Creek Nation, that there is a way proscribed by sd Treaty to get her from sd Savages by making application to your Exilency and I so well knowing the Cruelty with which prisoners is usd by them, by sad experience, I humbly petition your Exilency to (amediately) take such steps as to you may seem rite.” It is unclear to what treaty Williams is referring. The first treaty between the United States and the Creek Indians, the Treaty of New York, included such a provision for returning captives, but was signed nine years prior to this petition. The 1796 Treaty of Coleraine also included that provision. The letter continues with a description of her daughter: “I now give you the following description of my Child and where She was whin I left the nation &c. She is rather low made and has got a large scar on her side rather below her breast and has got yellow hair. I left her in a town Calld Oakchois and there was no other white person in sd town when I left there but herself. And sd town is near a town calld the Kielages in which there is a number of whites. And the name given the child by the Indians is Esne Hatchey…” We could locate no information about this captivity, and other than this document appears unrecorded. manuscript material relating to indian captivities by the southern tribes is excessively rare .
Manuscript letter written and signed for her in a clerical hand, to Georgia Governor James Jackson, detailing her captivity with the Creek Indians and petitioning him for his assistance in recovering her daughter who remained a captive .
Laurens County, SC, 14 October 1799. 2 pages, with an affidavit signed by her with a mark on a third page (12x7 inches, 300x180 mm). The affidavit signed by several county officials and with a paper seal. Condition: Some browning and toning, a few very minor chips at edges. remarkable 1799 manuscript account of a female and child captive held by creek indians in georgia. Lilyann Williams, apparently illiterate as this letter is written and signed on her behalf by a clerk (although with the integral affidavit containing her mark) here petitions Georgia Governor for his assistance, relating her capture, the birth of a daughter in captivity and describing her in detail in the hopes that he can assist in recovering her. “… I am a woman that in the year 1787 was taken a prisoner by the Creek Indians in your state and my Husband afterwards died. I was pregnant when taken, and while a prisoner brought forth a female Child. And in May 1795 I was brought into Savannah and Exchanged for, but the Indians refused to give up my Child, which is now near twelve years old. And now being informd that by the federal Treate with Sundry of the Indian tribes & with sd Creek Nation, that there is a way proscribed by sd Treaty to get her from sd Savages by making application to your Exilency and I so well knowing the Cruelty with which prisoners is usd by them, by sad experience, I humbly petition your Exilency to (amediately) take such steps as to you may seem rite.” It is unclear to what treaty Williams is referring. The first treaty between the United States and the Creek Indians, the Treaty of New York, included such a provision for returning captives, but was signed nine years prior to this petition. The 1796 Treaty of Coleraine also included that provision. The letter continues with a description of her daughter: “I now give you the following description of my Child and where She was whin I left the nation &c. She is rather low made and has got a large scar on her side rather below her breast and has got yellow hair. I left her in a town Calld Oakchois and there was no other white person in sd town when I left there but herself. And sd town is near a town calld the Kielages in which there is a number of whites. And the name given the child by the Indians is Esne Hatchey…” We could locate no information about this captivity, and other than this document appears unrecorded. manuscript material relating to indian captivities by the southern tribes is excessively rare .
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