Knoxville, September 22

Copy of a letter from a gentleman in Cumberland, to his friend in the place, dated Mill Creek, near Nashville, August 31, 1792:

"Sir

Since my last, an attack was made on John Berkley and his son, in his peach orchard, near Bledsoe's Lick, by a small party of Indians, of what nation is not known, about the 1st instant; the former was wounded, but bravely returned the fire and killed an Indian in the act of scalping his son." 

24 September 1792

"On the 24th ult. the Creeks killed and scalped Mr. Ramsey, an old resident among the Cherokees, and a person newly arrived from Charleston, at the Beloved Town of Estanaula (among the Cherokees) in open day, declaring it was their orders and determination to kill the Virginians wherever they found them, (for thus they call the citizens of the United States)" 

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