Macon Georgia Telegraph 1839

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"We regret to find that the savages have not yet buried the hatchet in Florida, but are still at their murderous work. On yesterday we were favored with the perusal of a letter from a young lady in Florida to her uncle in this city, which is dated the 29th ultimo, and came by the Florida, from Garey's Ferry. The letter states that on the evening previous about sunset a body of Indians surrounded the dwelling of a Mr. James Osteen, at Alligator, and shot him near his stable. He was instantly killed. An uncle of the writer's Mr. Simeon Dell, who was in the stable, made his escape to the house. A sister of Mr. Osteen's wife was shot through the left side and arm, but Mrs. O. and her children fled to the neighbor's houses.
Mr. Dell was not left in the house by himself, and seeing the Indians approaching, he picked up a stick, (as he had no gun), and pulled open the door..the Indians then fled. On searching the house, however, he found a gun, when he returned to the door and fired at the savages, who had come up. They also fired, and hit him in the left side above the breast. The shot entered the left shoulder blade, and was taken out on the 29th. Mr. Dell was doing well. One of the Indians has a white feather in his head, and it was thought by the settlers that they were a party which they had a fight with some time before at a place called Natural Bridge.
After the Indians left Mr. Osteen's, they proceeded to the plantation of Asa Roberts, about a quarter of a mile from Mr. O's.. but that family hearing the report of guns, had left for Mr. Zachariah Roberts' place, where the Indians followed and destroyed all the poor people has, even taking their only horse.
It was thought Mr. Dell had wounded one of the savages, by their taking the horse.
It is truly melancholy to record these atrocities.. and that too after we had been led to expect that the war was indeed over. We fear no treaty can bind these wretches.. and that extermination alone will stay their slaughtering merciless arms. Georgian."