The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-05

were shot I pray you to hasten your approach. Should our militia be de- feated, our settlement will probably fall a sacrifice.
 I am. dear Sir,
 Your most obt servt.,
 Harry Toulmins P. S.-Since the within has written MT. Pierce has returned from Pensa< cola. The Governor has issued an ors der for supplying the Indians with powder. They have had a war dance -avowed their intention to commit hostilities upon us-and are to bes gin with the adjacent settlements. The people have been fleeing all night" ..,
 Mobile, 9th Nov. '1a i, Dear Sir:- Yesterday the express which ! sent some time ago to Georgia return@ ed. It had been detained by Col Haw~ kins under the belief that it would not be safe to come thro' the nation. I suppose that the enclosed contains the substance of what he has written to me. and therefore do not deem 1t nec~ essary to send to you copy of his let- ter.
 MT. McGirt. one of the men who went, informs me that Col. Hawkins desired him to tell the General that the day he left the Agency (last Sunday
 
 400 barrels of flour, etc, and that they were to return immediately to Oakmul- gee for 400 more when the whole army were to start for Coweta,-and that when they got there. they would if possible send an express through,-to inform the army here where they should meet,-which he expected would be about the fork of Coosa and Tallapoosa. MT. McGirt says that there a Ir zi5 aF river, where they had built a fort, and S9O with two pieces of artillery on this side of Flint,-and that 500 men were expected on the day he left the agency. From a Georgia paper which the Col. has sent me. containing a letter from Genl. Jackson to Govr. Mitchell. 1t ap- pears that he was with about 1000 Tennessee troops 30 miles north of Huntsville on the 10th of Octr.-that his advance was on the frontier of Madison County-and that his spies had pushed into the Creek nation.- and that if not detained for want of provision he would cross the Tenness- see on the 18th ofOctober and form a junction with the advance of Genl. Cocke's 2.500 at Turkey town. He ex- pected to meet the Creeks at the Hic- ory Rround.-unless he should find that they had pushed on for the Mississippi:
  tion fro mthe Governor as to the spot where he should form a junction with the Georgia troops.
 I begin to hope well of our country. Col. Mckee Is here, using every ex- ertion to supply his Indians.
 He has no doubt of their fidelity and dreads the effects of it's being suspect ed. We have no news from Pensacola. My son attends you. I commit him to your friendship. Teach him obedience. caution and decorum. I take it for granted that he will not want cour- age. I hope 1t will be preceded by dis cretion. We hear nothing of Dr. Clai- borne.
 am dear Sir,
 Your very respectfully,
 Harry Toulmin." Judge Toulmin died in December 1924, and was buried in Washington County, Alabama. at a place called "Old Washington Court House"
 His descendants are numerous. A few of them are scattered throughout the United States in states other than Alabama and Kentucky, but many are found In central and south Alabama, and in Kentucky. in which latter state he resided and held high position as educator, lawyer and citizen, before removing to the Mississippi Territory.
 M M. Toulmin,